Vladimir Druk:  is a Russian-born poet and one of the founding members of the famous Moscow Poetry Club.  He is the author of seven poetry books published in Russia and US.  His work has appeared in leading poetry anthologies such as Twenty–First Century Russian Poetry, 20th Century of Russian Poetry, Crossing Century, Third Waveand others, and has been translated into over 15 languages.  He received First Prizes in the Russian America (2001) and diplomas in Moscow Account (2009, 2019) poetry competitions.  He now lives in New York writing poetry and working on projects at Textonica, an interactive publishing company he created.

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko:  was born in 1946 in Potsdam, Germany.  His books include Correspondence of the Sky(1990), Description(1990), Xenia(1993), Under Suspicion(1994), Phosphor(1995), Opisanie, (2000), Chinese Sun(2005), Indifference,Tautology, etc.  His writing had been translated and printed in numerous anthologies and journals in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Finland, Sweden, Japan, Brazil, US, and China.

Polina Barskova:  began publishing her poetry at age nine and is the author of eight books of poems; her latest is, Ariel’s Dispatch(Soobshchenie Ariela, NLO, 2011).  Two collections of her poetry in English translation appeared recently: This Lamentable City(Tupelo Press, 2010) and The Zoo in Winter(Melville House Press, 2010). She currently teaches Russian literature at Hampshire College and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Gennady Aigi:  (1934–2006) is widely considered to be one of the great avant-garde poets from the former Soviet Union.  In 1958 he was expelled from the Literary Institute in Moscow for his first book of poems, which was condemned by the censors as “hostile poetry” because it was written in Chuvash.