Géza Röhrig was born in Budapest in 1967. Kicked out of high school at 16 for anti-communist activity, he founded an underground punk band, Huckrebelly, which always played under different names to keep the police from stopping their concerts. In ’87 he moved to Kraków to study Polish Literature at the Jagiellonian University. In ’89 he started studying at the Hungarian University of Drama and Film, and played the lead role in two Hungarian movies (Armelle by András Sólyom in 1988 and Eszmélet by József Madaras in 1989). In the early 90s he lived in Jerusalem, then spent two years studying at a hasidic yeshiva in Brooklyn. Soon after, he published his first book of poems. He has lived in New York since 2000 where he graduated with an MA in Jewish education from the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York and started to teach. This past January Röhrig participated in a one-on-one broadcast conversation with Martin Schulz, the President of the European Parliament, in honour of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Röhrig has been named as one of the top 100 people positively influencing Jewish life by the New York-based Algemeiner Journal. Röhrig has published eight volumes of poetry and one short story collection. He speaks and writes widely on the topic of Jewish issues and is currently working on his first novel. He lives in New York with his wife and four children.