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Maxim Amelin is a poet, critic, editor, and translator. He is among the last generation of Russian poets to grow up in the Soviet Union. The recipient of numerous national awards, including the Moscow Reckoning Award, the Anti-Booker, the Novyi Mir Prize, and the Bunin Prize, his work has been translated into over a dozen languages. In 2013 Amelin won the prestigious Solzhenitsyn Prize for his contributions to Russian poetry. The author of three books of poetry, including Холодные оды (Cold Odes, 1996), Dubia (1999), and Конь Горгоны (The Horse of the Gorgon, 2003), as well as a collection of prose and poems, Гнутая речь (Bent Speech, 2011), he is also an accomplished translator of Pindar, Catullus, Homer, and other ancient and contemporary poets. He currently lives in Moscow. He is a member of the Russian PEN-Club and editor-in-chief at OGI, a leading publisher of contemporary literature.

Derek Mong is the author of Other Romes (Saturnalia Books, 2011) and the poetry editor at Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, & Translation. The recipient of fellowships and awards from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the University of Louisville, The Missouri Review, and the Hopwood Program, he lives in Portland, OR with his wife and son. He holds an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan and is currently finishing a Ph.D. in English Literature at Stanford. His poems, translations, and prose have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Pleiades, Court Green, and on the website "99 Poems for the 99 Percent." Find more at his website.

Anne O. Fisher is the translator of Ilf and Petrov's novels The Twelve Chairs and The Little Golden Calf, as well as their 1936 travelogue Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip. She has also translated the prose of Margarita Meklina and Leonid Tishkov, and—with husband and co-translator Derek Mong—the poetry of Maxim Amelin. Their Amelin translations, supported by an NEA translation grant, have appeared or are forthcoming in The Dallas Review, Cerise Press, Big Bridge Magazine: An Anthology of Twenty-First Century Russian Poetry, and Chtenia/Readings. Fisher's translations have also appeared, or will appear, in Cabinet Magazine, Squaring the Circle: Winners of the Debut Prize for Fiction, and Flash Fiction International. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and now lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and son. Her current favorite Russian children's book is Vitaliy Bianki's Сказки о животных (Fairy Tales about Animals).