Eva Tihanyi was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1956 and came to Canada at the age of six. She grew up in Windsor, lived in Toronto from 1981 to 1989, and then moved to Welland, Ontario, where she teaches at Niagara College.
Tihanyi has published five books of poetry and one short story collection, Truth and Other Fictions. Her new book of poetry, In the Key of Red, is forthcoming from Inanna Publications in Fall 2010.
Tihanyi is a member of the Writers' Union of Canada and the League of Canadian Poets.