About the Author:

Nina Kossman’s twelve books include poetry in English, poetry in Russian, collections of short prose, a memoir, a novel, an anthology she edited for Oxford University Press, and two volumes of translations of Marina Tsvetaeva’s poetry. Her English-language work has appeared in over ninety magazines and anthologies and has been translated into many languages, including French, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Persian, Chinese, and Japanese. Her plays have been produced internationally. Her work in her first language, Russian, was published in Russian-language periodicals in and outside of Russia. A finalist for the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, she is a recipient of an NEA fellowship, UNESCO/PEN Short Story award, grants from the Onassis Foundation, the Foundation for Hellenic Culture, etc.

























































