The Petersburg Express

Serge Iourienen is a Russian writer, translator, radio host, and dissident. He is the author of several collections of short stories and novels, including The Marksman which has appeared in an English translation. He emigrated from the USSR in 1977. (updated 7/2012)

Mary Ann Szporluk is a translator and editor. Her translations include Vladimir Makanin’s Escape Hatch: Two Novellas and Irma Kudrova’s The Death of a Poet: The Last Days of Marina Tsvetaeva. (updated 7/2012)