Zénó Vernyik is assistant professor and head of the English Department at the Technical University of Liberec. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Masaryk University and a degree in English Studies from the University of Szeged. With his main research interest since 2012 being Arthur Koestler’s fiction, a topic on which he has published several articles, Vernyik is also the author of Cities of Saviors: Urban Space in E. E. Cummings’ Complete Poems, 1904-1962 and Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor (Americana eBooks, 2015) and the editor, with Martina Vránová and Dávid Levente Palatinus, of Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture (Americana eBooks, 2018) and, with Jiří Flajšar, of Words into Pictures: E. E. Cummings’ Art Across Borders (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).