Mark Krotov

Mark Krotov is an assistant editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He was born in Moscow and moved to the United States in 1991. His translation of an essay by Kirill Medvedev will appear in It’s No Good, a forthcoming collection of Medvedev’s writings published by Ugly Duckling Presse.

Rachel Polonsky

Rachel Polonsky is a lecturer in Slavonic Studies at Cambridge and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College. Her scholarly interests include nineteenth and twentieth century poetry, fiction, and memoir, and the place of Russian literature in the overlapping contexts of cultural, intellectual, and political history. Her most recent book is 'Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History.

Anne Fisher

Anne O. Fisher is the translator of two novels by the Soviet satirical duo Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, The Twelve Chairs and The Little Golden Calf (Russian Life Books, 2009). In 2007 she was short-listed for the Rossica translation prize for Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers. She holds a PhD in Russian Literature from the University of Michigan and lives in San Francisco.