Sergey Stratanovsky:  born 1944 and living in St. Petersburg, is a poet, playwright, critic, and co-editor of the magazine Obvodnyi Kanal.  He has been widely published in samizdat, Western magazines, and in Russia.  His selected poems was published by Carcanet Press as Muddy River in 2016.  He was the first Russian poet to be granted a Joseph Brodsky Fellowship, and he has also been awarded the Tsarskoselsky Prize, the Pasternak Prize, and the Andrey Bely Prize.

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.

Evgeny Stepanov:  (born in 1964 in Moscow), a poet, fiction and non-fiction writer, and publisher, widely published in major Russian literary journals.  He is editor-in-chief of a poetry journal Children of Ra and of an on-line portal “Reading Hall.”  He was awarded Delvig and “Neva” journal awards for his writing.

Grigory Starikovsky:  a poet, translator, and essayist, born in Moscow in 1971. Has been in the U.S. since 1992.  He earned a Ph.D. in Classics at Columbia University and translates into Russian from Ancient Greek, Latin, and English.  He teaches Latin at a public school in New Jersey.