Zita Izsó (1986) poet, translator, playwrite, editor of books, periodicals and radio programmes. Her first play which she wrote together with her sibling, won her first prize of the drama competition of the Hungarian Radio. Her first volume of poetry came out in 2012 and won her a Gérecz Attila prize. In 2013 she won a Móricz Zsigmond Literary Scholarship and in 2015 a Babits Mihály Literary Translator’s Scholarship. She is managing a blog called ‘Pesti nő’ (‘The Budapest Lady’) together with Máté Bach and in the spring of 2017 they published an interview collection from the materials of this (Pesti nő, Athenaeum Kiadó). Her poems have been translated to English, Czech, Arabic, German, Bulgarian, Romanian, Polish, Serbian and Turkish. Her third volume of poetry was published in 2018.