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Agnes Lehoczky (1976) is an Hungarian-born poet, scholar and translator originally from Budapest. She has two short poetry collections in Hungarian, Station X (2000) and Medallion (2002), published by Universitas, Budapest. Her first full collection in English, Budapest to Babel, was published in 2008 and her second collection, Rememberer, in 2012 by Egg Box Publishing. She was the winner of the Arthur Welton Poetry Award 2010, the Daniil Pashkoff Prize 2010 in poetry and the inaugural winner of the Jane Martin Prize for Poetry at Girton College, Cambridge, in 2011. She was Hungary's representative poet for Poetry Parnassus at Southbank Centre during London's Cultural Olympiad in Summer 2012. Her collection of essays on the poetry of Agnes Nemes Nagy, Poetry: the Geometry of Living Substance, was published in 2011 by Cambridge Scholars and a libretto of hers was commissioned by Writers' Centre Norwich for The Voice Project at Norwich Cathedral as part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2011. A sequence of her prose poems Parasite of Town, on psycho-geographic aspects of Sheffield, was commissioned by Citybooks Sheffield in 2011. She co-edited Sheffield Anthology; Poems from the City Imagined (Smith/Doorstop, 2012) with Adam Piette, Ann Sansom and Peter Sansom, featuring 101 poets, from Carol Ann Duffy to Simon Armitage, Roy Fisher and Peter Riley. Her work has recently appeared in The World Record, eds. Neil Astley and Anna Selby (Bloodaxe, 2012), In Their Own Words, eds. Helen Ivory and George Szirtes (Salt, 2012) and Dear World & Everyone in It, New Poetry in the UK, ed. Nathan Hamilton (Bloodaxe, 2013). She currently works as a lecturer and teaches creative writing at the University of Sheffield.