Aleksandr Skidan:  was born in Leningrad in 1965.  He is a poet, critic, translator, and  author of five collections of poetry, including the most recent Syr bukv mel. On Arkadii Dragomoschenko (2019). In 2008 his book Red Shifting was published in the USA by Ugly Duckling Presse.  He is co-editor of the New Literary Observer magazine (Moscow) and lives in St. Petersburg.

Gali-Dana Singer:  was born in 1962 in St. Petersburg (Russia) and came to Israel in 1988.  Poet, translator, and editor of the bilingual Hebrew-Russian literary magazine Nekudataim (with Nekoda Singer).  Eight volumes of her poetry have been published in Russian and four in Hebrew.  She is the recipient of the Yair Tzaban 1998 Prize, Poetry 2000 Prize at The Festival in Metulla, and the Prime Minister 2004 Prize for Hebrew writers.

Ekaterina Simonova:  born in 1977 in Nizhnyi Tagil, she published six collections of poetry and received awards for poetry from the journals Ural and Poezia.  She coordinated a Russian literary-critical award “Neistovyi Vissarion.”  Her poetry was translated into English, Slovenian, and Ukrainian.  She lives in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

Tatiana Shcherbina:  graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State University.  The creator and editor-in-chief of Estet magazine (1996) she began publishing in samizdat and is now internationally recognized as a journalist, editor, and a poet.  She has three books in English translation, Life Without, The Score of the Game, and An Offshoot of Sense. Her most recent book of essays was published in 2019, and of her poems in 2020.