Dmitry Vedenyapin:  was born in Moscow in 1959.  He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages.  His poems appeared in magazinesNovy Mir, Continent, Potscriptum, Novaya Unost, Octyabr, Coltso A, Znamya, Vozduh,etc.  An author of eight books of poetry: Protecting Veil,1993, Grass and Smoke,2002, Between the Cupboard and the Sky,2009, What Does the Sun Beam Mean,2010, Glass Laughs, Cigarette Sobs,2015,Home Performances,2015, The Faith of a Mushroom,2017, and Birdie,2018.  He won the main Prize Moscow Score in 2010.

Alexei Tsvetkov:  is a Russian poet currently living in Washington DC.  His most recent collection of poems, Names of Love(Novoe izdatelstvo, 2007), received the Andrei Bely Prize for poetry.  Together with Sergei Gandlevsky, Bakhyt Kenjeev, and Alexander Soprovsky he founded the unofficial group of poets “Moscow Time.”  In 1975 he was arrested and deported from Moscow and in the same year emigrated to the United States and entered the University of Michigan graduate school and was awarded a Ph.D. degree.  He taught Russian language at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, then worked as an international broadcaster at the Voice of America radio station.  From 1989 until 2007 he worked at the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, first in Munich, later in Prague. Currently he is a freelance writer based in New York City.

Marina Temkina:  her selected poetry book is coming at New Literary Review, Moscow, Russia, in 2019.  This is her fifth book of poetry in Russian.  Marina published three artist books in collaboration with Michel Gerard:Observatoire Geomnesique,MoMA Duomo,and Who Is I?   She is a poet-artist with wide acclaim.

Maria Stepanova:  (b. 1972) is a poet, essayist, and editor-in-chief of Colta.ru, an independent crowd-funded online daily.  Her opinion pieces on the current political and media landscape in Russia have been published in Russian, English, and German. Her novel Pamiati pamiati (In Memory of Memory)that blends memoir, documents, and essays into an epic narrative, came out in Russian in November 2017 and received the Big Book Prize in December 2018.  The book was published in German (Suhrkamp, 2018), Swedish, and Dutch and is forthcoming in English, French, Italian, Chinese and a number of other languages.