Yury Milorava:  was born in Tbilisi, Georgia.  He is a graduate of the Tbilisi institute of Foreign Languages and has been publishing poetry in Russian since 1972.  He is the author of three books of poetry, Instead(1966),Spinning–Wheel–Angel (2003), Oveho(2017).  He was the recipient of 7 literary awards.

Irina Mashinski:  is the author of ten books of poetry in Russian. She is co-editor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry(2015) and co-founder and editor of the StoSvet/Cardinal Points project.

Anna Halberstadt:  is a New York-based poet, psychologist, and translator from Russian and Lithuanian.  She has published six books, including, Vilnius Diary, 2014,Transit, 2016,Green in a Landscape with Ashes,2017, and Gloomy Sun,2017, and two books of translations: Selected Selected by Eileen Myles and Nocturnal Fire by Edward Hirsch, in Russian.  Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, such as Alabama Literary Review, Alembic,Amarillo Bay,Atlanta Review, Bluestem, Caliban, The Café Review, Cimarron Review,East Jasmine Review, Father Nature, Literary Imagination, and many others.She is a recipient of the International Merit Award by Atlanta Review, 2016, Award for Poetry by the journal Children of Ra,2016.  She was named Translator of the Year 2017 by the journal Persona PLUSfor her translation of Bob Dylan’s poem.

Anna Glazova:  is a poet, translator, and independent scholar. She has published five books of poetry in Russian and received her Ph.D. in German and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University (USA).  She translates from German and English.