Semyon Khanin:  (1970, Riga) is a poet, translator, editor, artist and performer.  He is author of the books Tol’ko chto (2003), Opushchennye podrobnosti (2008), Vplav’  (2013), A vam ne kazhetsa, chto eti vashi p’at’ minut kak–to slishkom sil’no zat’anulis’ (2015), No ne tem (selected poems, 2017), and Posignal’ (2019).  He is the founding member of the multimedia poetry project, Orbita.

Bakhyt Kenjeev:  born in 1950, he is one of the leading Russian poets of his generation.  A Kazakh by birth, he was raised in Moscow, went to Montreal in 1982, and now lives in New York. A staple in all key Russian literary magazines, he has published 20 books of poetry and won numerous literary awards.

Andrey Gritsman:  is a poet, essayist, and writer of short stories from Russia, and writes in English and in Russian.  His works have appeared in many American, European, and Russian magazines and anthologies.  He runs Intercultural Poetry Series in Manhattan and edits the poetry magazine INTERPOEZIA.  He lives in New York City and works as a physician.

Anna Golubkova:  born in Tver in 1973 and studied history at Tver State University and philology at Moscow State University. She is interested in philosophy of Wassily Rosanov and wrote the book Literary critics of Wassily Rosanov: experience in system analysis.  She also writes poetry and prose.  Poetry books include Hell of the city, Misanthropy, and Traveller’s Notebook.