Catherine Ciepiela: Scholar and translator of modern Russian poetry, she is the author of a book on Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak (The Same Solitude, Cornell UP, 2006) and co-editor with Honor Moore of The Stray Dog Cabaret (NYRB 2006), a book of Paul Schmidt’s translations of the Russian modernists.
Anna Khasin: Independent translator living in Boston. Her translations of Anna Glazova were published by Shearsman Books under the title Twice Under the Sun (2008).
Polina Barskova: Two collections of her poetry in translation appeared recently: "This Lamentable City" (Trans. Ilya Kaminsky, Tupelo Press, 2010), "The Zoo in Winter" (Trans. David Stromberg, Boris Dralyuk, Melville House Press, 2011). Barskova now teaches Russian literature at Hampshire College.
Anna Glazova: Selections of her poems have been published in various literary magazines and anthologies and translated into German and ChineseCurrently, she holds a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for the Humanities and the Department of German Studies at the Cornell University (Ithaca, New York).
Anna Glazova is a poet, translator, and literary scholar. She was born in Dubna in 1973. She has studied and taught in Germany and the United States, receiving her PhD from Northwestern University in Illinois. She has published six books of poetry, and has translated into Russian the work of numerous authors, including Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Paul Celan. She won the Andrei Bely Prize for her poetry collection, For the Shrew. She currently lives in Hamburg, Germany.
Translator Alex Niemi’s poetry and translations from the French, Russian, and Spanish have appeared in The Offing, Columbia Journal, Asymptote and other publications. She is the translator of The John Cage Experiences by Vincent Tholomé (Autumn Hill Books, 2020) and the author of the poetry chapbook, Elephant (dancing girl press, 2020). She received her MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Maria Stepanova is a poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and the author of ten poetry collections and three books of essays. Her book War of the Beasts and the Animals (Bloodaxe Books, 2021), translated by Sasha Dugdale, was the first English translation of her poetry. It was a Poetry Book Society Translation Choice and was shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2021. Stepanova has received several Russian and international literary awards (including the prestigious Andrey Bely Prize and Joseph Brodsky Fellowship). Her documentary novel In Memory of Memory won Russia's Big Book Award in 2018 and was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. As a prominent critic of Putin’s regime, Stepanova had to leave Russia and is now living in exile in Berlin.
