is a Russian poet and writer, born in Tajikistan in 1968.  He received a degree in medicine from Yaroslavl State Medical Academy.  He has published seven books of poetry, prose poems, and visual poetry.  Recent publications include Slash (Moscow, 2008; in collaboration with Alexei Tsvetkov Jr.) published at Dmitry Kuzmin’s Argo Risk Press, and A God Suffering from Astrophilia (New Literary Observer Press: Moscow, 2008).  His work has been translated into English, Italian, Serbian, Montenegrin, German, French, Estonian, Albanian, Dutch, Ukrainian, Slovenian, and Polish.  He was awarded the Turgenev Festival Prize for short prose in 1998 and in 2006 was nominated for Andrei Bely Prize.  Anatomical Theatre, will be published in 2011 by Zephyr Press.

is a contemporary Russian poet born in Leningrad.  His poems can be found in Fogged Clarity, World Literature Today, SUSS, Cyphers, Action Yes, Words Without Borders, Ryga Journal, The Straddler, The Dorty Goat, Saint –Petersburg Review, Diverse Voices Quarterly, etc.  His first collection of poems was published in 2009 by Argo Risk Press (Moscow).

was born in Malakhovka, a small town near Moscow.  Since 1998, she has been a member of the Moscow Union of Writers and in 2003, became a member of the Russian PEN – centre.  In 2004 an English version of her book, entitled A Voice, appeared in the acclaimed Writings from an Unbound Europe series at Northwestern University Press.  Books and Publications include, Svetoch Moy Nebesny (My Heavenlike Torch, 1993); Stixotvorenia (Moscow Writer Publishing House, 1998); The Sky Through a Private’s Eye (Kogelet Publishing House, 1999); Golos (Moscow, Podkova Publishing House 2002); A Voice (Northwestern University Press 2004, USA); Snow Within (R. Elinina, classic century21st, 2008), Modern Poetry in Translation; International Poetry Review; Magazine Atlantica, Poetry Review, Stand Magazine, Descant, World Literature Today, The Malahat Review, Boulevard Magazine.

was born in Newcastle, England in 1946, left school at 14, and in 1964 co – organized the Morden Tower poetry readings, “a Golden Bloomsday for the revival of British poetry in the 60s.”  Called “the lyrical post – beat enfant terrible of the alternative poetry scene in 60s/70s UK,” he is credited with encouraging the British poet Basil Bunting to begin writing again. He was a great supporter of American experimental poetry, and gained a reputation as something of an ally among such poets as Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, and Charles Olson.  His most recent offerings, Hole in the Wall: New & Selected Poems and The Dark Months of May were published by Flood Editions in 2002 and 2004 respectively.