Living Pictures

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Polina Barskova, born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in 1976, is one of the most celebrated contemporary Russian writers. She currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to her extensive poetic oeuvre, she is a literary scholar and editor dedicated to the poets of the Leningrad blockade. Living Pictures is her first volume of prose. Catherine Ciepiela is professor of Russian at Amherst College, and a translator of Russian literature. She is the author of The Same Solitude, a nonfiction work about the epistolary romance between Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak. Eugene Ostashevsky is a professor, poet and translator. he is the author of The Feeling Sonnets and The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi and the translator of Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets, also available from Pushkin Press.

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