Carmen Kovács is a Hungarian-born novelist and translator whose work fuses Carpathian folklore with polar myth and audacious romance. Raised in Szeged, she studied comparative literature and ethnography at Eötvös Loránd University before spending several winters in Reykjavík, where she guided visitors along saga trails and learned to read weather like a legend.
Her fiction includes the mythic romantasy novels Salt-Witch of Sárvíz and A Map of Broken Tides, as well as short work in Central European magazines and anthologies. She has received the Silver Quill Prize and a North Sea Arts Residency for her atmospheric prose and worldbuilding. Fluent in Hungarian, Romanian, and Icelandic, Carmen frequently translates poetry about rivers, ice, and the ways they remember us.
Carmen Kovács lives in Cluj-Napoca with two elderly cats and an unreasonable number of maps. When she isn't drafting, she hikes in the Apuseni Mountains, ice-skates on the Someș, and records the sounds of winter for research.
