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Timea Sipos is a Hungarian-American writer and translator with an MFA in Creative Writing from the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Originally from Budapest, she later studied literary translation
at the Balassi Institute in her beloved city. She is a proud 2021-2022 Steinbeck Fellow.
Timea published more than thirty works, including Hungarian translations and original fiction and
poetry, in reputable American and international magazines in just over two years. She is a
2021 Pushcart Prize nominee, a PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize nominee, a Miami Book Fair Emerging Writers
Fellowship honorable mention, a J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction finalist, and a Cecelia Joyce
Johnson Award finalist. She translates writers such as Márton Simon, Ilka Papp-Zakor, Éva Veronika
Kalapos, Mátyás Dunajcsik, Ferenc Czinki, Zita Izsó, Tibor Babiczky, and many more. Her translation
of Márton Simon's chapbook of poetry called Songs for 3:45 AM appeared with The Offending Adam in 2021.
Timea has earned the support of the Macdowell Colony, the Steinbeck Fellowship, Tin House, the Vermont
Studio Center, the American Literary Translators Association, the Hungarian Translators House Foundation,
the Nevada Arts Council, and the Black Mountain Institute, among others. She’s currently finishing her first
book, a short story collection centering the narratives of Hungarian and Hungarian-American women. She also
has a speculative novel set in her mother's lakeside town of Balatonlelle in the works.
She is represented by Heather Carr of the Friedrich Agency.