Elizabeth Csicsery-Ronay is a writer, poet, translator, and editor. She studied philosophy at George Washington University, then modern languages at the Sorbonne, Paris. Was music critic for five years for The Bulletin, Brussels and editor of the Berlioz Society Bulletin for 12 years. She has translated books on music, history, politics, short stories, novels, children's stories, and poetry from French and Hungarian into English. Her magnum opus is a translation of Hector Berlioz's collection of music criticism, A Travers Chants, The Art of Music and Other Essays. She translated many poems by Hungarian poets in the anthology, Down Fell the Statue of Goliath, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Her own poems come to her in three languages, Hungarian, French, and English. They have been translated into many languages.