Helen Constantine taught languages in schools until 2000, when she became a full-time translator. She has published two volumes of translated stories, Paris Tales and French Tales, and is currently editing a series of City Tales for Oxford University Press. She has translated Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier and Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos for Penguin. She is married to the writer DavidConstantine and with him edits the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation.Hugh Shankland lived several years in Rome before founding and heading the Italian department at Durham University, England. Less