Irina Mashinski was born and raised in Moscow and in 1991 emigrated to the United States. Mashinski is the author The Naked World (MadHat Press, 2022) and Giornata (Červená Barva Press, 2022) and of twelve books of poetry, prose, and essays in Russian. She is co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk, of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015) and of Cardinal Points, the journal of Brown University’s Slavic Department. Her work has been translated into several languages and has appeared in Poetry International, World Literature Today, Asymptote, Modern Poetry in Translation, New American Writing, and elsewhere.  Irina Mashinski is the recipient of several literary awards and, with Boris Dralyuk, of the First Prize in the 2012 Joseph Brodsky / Stephen Spender Translation Prize competition. She is a Hawthornden fellow (2017) and a Pushcart Prize nominee (2023). Website: irinamashinski.com