Bilingual Reading Series: Slavic Languages

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Nina Kossman is a painter, sculptor, bilingual writer, poet, translator of Russian poetry, and playwright. Among her published works are two books of poems in Russian and English, two volumes of translations of Tsvetaeva’s poems, two collections of short stories, an anthology published by Oxford University Press, and a novel. Maria Guzenko is an ATA-certified English<>Russian translator. She holds an MA in Translation from Kent State University and specializes in healthcare and marketing content. Maria has also worked as a project manager and has taught college Russian and writing classes. More information can be found on Maria’s website at https://intorussian.net. (opens in new tab)James Richie has an MA in Language, Literature, and Translation from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has published English translations of Spanish, Italian, and Russian poetry. Rachael Daum translates from Serbian, Russian, and German. She received her MA from Indiana University and her BA from the University of Rochester; she completed certificates in literary translation studies at both institutions. She currently lives and works in Cologne, Germany, and is ALTA’s Communication and Awards Manager. Christina E. Kramer, Professor Emerita of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto, is a Balkan linguist and literary translator. Her translations include works by Luan Starova, Lidija Dimkovska, Goce Smilevski, and others. She has won two NEA grants for her work. She is currently translating Fear of Barbarians by Petar Andonovski, a winner of the European Union Prize for Literature 2020. Eireene Nealand translates Bulgarian, Russian, and French prose and poetry. Her academic research looks at how French and American artists have used a balancing faculty called proprioception to create new senses. Contra Mundum will publish her and Daniela Hurezanu’s translation of Marguerite Duras’s Le camion in 2021. Bistra Velichkova writes fiction. Her debut short story collection, Small, Dirty and Sad (2014) has won multiple awards, including the first place in the Southern Spring National Contest for Debut Literature in Haskovo, Bulgaria (2015). Later on, it was included in a catalogue featuring contemporary Bulgarian authors, designed for distribution at the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair (National Book Centre, National Palace of Culture, 2015). Bistra’s short story collection was also nominated for the 2016 Vanya Konstantinova literary award, Bulgaria. Velichkova is also the author of a poetry collection, God’s Waiting for the Dealer (Ergo, 2018). Her other fiction works have appeared in English in Drunken Boat, Catamaran Literary Reader, and Fiction Writers Review. In Bulgarian, she has published poetry and prose with Literary Newspaper, Starshel, Trud (newspapers); Granta Bulgaria, Stranitsa, LIK, More, NO poezia (magazines); LiterNet, Crosspoint, Dictum, Fakel, E-sushnost (online media).