Biography

GLEB SHULPYAKOV is an editor for the literary journal Novaya Yunost, and a translator into Russian of the poetry of Ted Hughes, Robert Hass and W. H. Auden. In 2001, he received the inaugural Triumph Prize for his poetry. He is also the author of the novels The Sinan Book (2005), Tsunami (2008), Fez (2010) and Dante Museum (2013), as well as numerous essays, travelogues and criticism. His play Pushkin in America was laureate of the “Dramatis personae” concourse in 2005, and his first book in English translation was A Fireproof Box (Canarium Books, 2012).

CHRISTOPHER MATTISON graduated with an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa and has been working in publishing since the mid-nineties. He is currently the Assistant Director of the Hong Kong Advanced Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Studies, City University of Hong Kong, and continues to work with a number of independent publishing houses, including Zephyr Press, Adventures in Poetry, and Zoland Poetry. His Russian translations include Dmitri Prigov’s 50 Drops of Blood in an Absorbent Medium (Ugly Duckling Press, 2004) and Gleb Shulpyakov’s A Fireproof Box (Canarium Books, 2012).