Author Profiles

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Yana Kane
New Jersey, USA

Yana Kane came to the United States as a refugee from the Soviet Union when she was a teenager. She has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Cornell University. She is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she has been awarded the Baumeister Scholarship.aumeister Scholarship. Her writing appeared in a variety of Russian and English language magazines and anthologies. A bilingual book of her poetry and translations, “Kingfisher/Zimorodok,” was published in 2020. View.Point recognized her poetry translations as among the “Best of 2022.” She won the 2024 RHINO Poetry Translation Prize, was a finalist for the 2025 Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation, was selected for Deep Vellum Best Literary Translations 2025 anthology and nominated for Deep Vellum Best Literary Translations 2026 anthology.

Bookshelf
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by J Rainsnow

In this collection of short stories drawing on years of unconventional living, the author dives into the deeply personal world of the imagination in search of tales and truths to support the foundations of a better future.

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)

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by Charles Whittaker

Selected poems of Charles Whittaker.

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