Alexander Stessin

Alexander Stessin:  is a New York-based Russian writer and physician, whose 2019 bookThe New York Rounds won the prestigious NOS Annual Literature Prize.  He studied at the University at Buffalo followed by medical school at Cornell University.  In 2014 he was awarded the Russian Prize from the Boris Yeltsin Foundation for the novel Sankofa, based on his experiences working as a physician in Ghana.