Born in Bucharest, Romania, Daniel Ionita is a poet, literary critic, publisher, and translator. His collections of poetry were published in Australia (Short Bursts of Eternity – Flying Islands, Pentimento – Interactive Publications), Romania (Hanging Between The Stars – Minerva Publishing, ContraDiction - PIM Publishing, The Island of Words from Home – Limes Publishing). His poems have been included in several significant anthologies in USA, Canada, Romana, and Australia – for example in Puncher & Wattman’s This Poem – This Gift, On First Looking, and All These Presences. In the last ten years Daniel has dedicated much of his time to poetry and literary translation. He produced the volumes Testament - 400 Years of Romanian Poetry, a representative collection of Romanian poetry in English (winner of the translation prize for 2019, in Bucharest). Then there is The Bessarabia of My Soul – representing, also in English, of poets from the Republic of Moldova (Poetry Prize in Moldova – for 2018) The most recent such volume is Return Ticket from Sydney to Bistrita - A Lyrical Carousel between the Antipodes. This unites, again bilingually, two groups of poets creating 17000 kilometers apart: "The Judith Beveridge Poetry Class" from Sydney and “Bistrita Poetry Group Literary Connections” (Conexiuni Literare, Bistrita) from Romania. Daniel is the current president of the Australian-Romanian Academy for Culture, and also manages Australian-Romanian Academy Publishing.