Drill and Song Day

Vladimir Koslov was born in 1972 in Mogilev, an industrial city in the eastern part of what was then the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. He is a graduate of the Minsk State Linguistic University and the Indiana University School of Journalism. Koslov has worked as a reporter, newspaper editor, translator, screenwriter, and documentary film-maker. A resident of Moscow since 2000, he is the author of the story collection Gopniki (Hoodlums, 2002) and the novels Shkola (School, 2003), Varsha (Warsaw, 2004), Platskart (Second Class, 2006), and Pops (2007)

Andrea Gregovich’s translations have appeared in Tin House, Caffe Irreal, AGNI, and the Dalkey Archive Press anthology Amerika. She recently completed a novel, Martyred Cars.

Mikhail Iossel teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and directs the Summer Literary Seminars international literary program. A Leningrad native, he worked as an electromagnetic engineer and belonged to a circle of samizdat writers before emigrating to the United States in 1986. (updated 2008)