Isn’t She Not a Bird

Physicist Nina Iskrenko is a founding member of the Moscow-based Poetry Club. Her first official book, Or, was just published in Russia. English translations of her work appear in the anthology Third Wave: Poetry in the Age of Perestroika. (1992)

Forrest Gander is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection Twice Alive (New Directions, 2021). A translator and multiple-genre writer with degrees in geology and literature, he has received, among other honors, the Pulitzer Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, and fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim Foundation, and United States Artists. Born in the Mojave Desert, he lives in California. (updated 10/2021)