Leopold Epstein
Author Profiles

About the Author:

Leo Epstein
photo by Olga Faybushevich
Leopold Epstein
Boxborough, Massachusetts.

Leopold Epstein is a poet, who writes in Russian  (and once in a while, in English and Ukrainian). He published seven collections of poetry in the US, Ukraine, and Russia. He was born in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1949, and is a mathematician by trade. He lives in Massachusetts.

Bookshelf
100 pms war
by Julia Nemirovskaya, editor

This excellent anthology, compiled and edited by Julia Nemirovskaya, showcases poems by Russian (and Russian-speaking) poets who express their absolute rejection of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

DesyatyjKrug
by David Gay

The documentary novel “The Tenth Circle” tells the story of the life, struggle, and destruction of the Minsk ghetto, one of the largest in the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II. (Russian edition)

1. Dislocation
by Julia Nemirovskaya and Anna Krushelnitskaya, editors

This collection focuses on the war between Russia and Ukraine as seen by Russophone poets from all over the world.

Videos
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EastWest Literary Forum Bilingual Poetry & Prose Reading. July 13, 2025.
Length: 2 hrs. 08 min