Liliya Gazizova:  is a poet, essayist, and translator.  She graduated from Kazan medical school and Moscow Gorky Literary Institute. She worked as a pediatrician for six years.  At this time, she teaches Russian literature at Erjies University in Kayseri, Turkey. She edits a bilingual literary journal Interpoezia.

Marina Eskina:  is a poet and translator.  She is from Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and immigrated to USA in 1989.  She is the author of four collections of poetry in Russian.  Also a first place winner in the international poetry competition Emigrantskaia Lira, Liège, Belgium, 2017.

Mikhail Eremin:  participated in one of the first unofficial  post- war poetry groups, the so-called “philological school” of the late 1950s.  His books, Poems (1–6), were published by Pushkinskii Fond.  He was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize for poetry in 1998 and, in 2014, a residency at the American Academy in Rome by the Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund.

Tatiana Daniliyants:  is a poet, film-director, artist, curator, and producer.  In 2014 she received the medal “Golden Poetry” by the St. Petersburg League of Avant-garde Cultural Activists.  Her most recent book The River’s Embrace got special mention by the professional poetry competition “Moscow Score” (2020).