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EDITOR AND FOUNDER:

Elizabeth L. Hodges (J.D. 1986) is a writer-attorney, who has been traveling to Russia since 1998, first with a rule of law project assisting the Vologda region in establishing an independent judiciary and rule of law state, and, for the last three years, as part of Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg where she has lectured on the Russian constitution. She has been on the New Hampshire Bar Journal Board of Editors since 1998. She received her M.A. in writing in 1974 from Hollins College, where she studied with Richard Dillard, and her B.A. in 1973 in Journalism and English from the University of Richmond. From 1975-1980, she was one of the editors of Dark Horse, a literary tabloid published in Cambridge, MA. She has published poetry in Runes, The North American Review, The Connecticut Poetry Review, The New Virginia Review, and The Greenfield Review, among others, and fiction in Ploughshares.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:

Mariya Gusev is an editor, writer and translator. She was born in St. Petersburg and has been a staff member and lecturer with Summer Literary Seminars since 2003. She received her MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she studied with René Steinke. Formerly an editor for The Literary Review (2004-06), she has taught writing in the NY area. Her recent work includes poetry translations for BibliObraz Literary Festival in Moscow, street interviews with William T. Vollmann for two Russian chapters in Poor People (2007), and her poems can be found in In Posse Review. She lives and works in New York City.

Resa Alboher is a published American writer and editor who has been living and working in Russia since 1992. She has been staff for the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg since 2004. In the 1990’s, she worked as a freelance editor and taught English at the St. Petersburg Institute of Archaeology. In addition to editing the review, she is one of the directors of the Moscow Professional Women’s Organization, which provides networking and career opportunities for Russian and foreign women in the Moscow community. She received her degree in English and Theatre Arts from Hofstra University in 1984 and has studied writing with Marguerite Young. She is the author of two plays, A Pretty Blue and Behind the Light, which were produced in New York and Amsterdam, respectively.

EDITORIAL BOARD

Abby Sugar lives and writes in New York City. She has studied poetry at
Barnard College, the University of Michigan, and the Summer Literary
Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming
in online journals including Melusine and Tattoo Highway.

Jesse Longman is a writer currently residing in Manhattan. A recent graduate
of Columbia University’s MFA program in playwriting, Jesse’s work has
received readings and premiers at national and international theaters.

Ken Calhoun is a writer and interactive designer who serves as Chair of Art and Graphic Design Department at Lasell College. His short fiction has appeared in New Stories from the South, The Paris Review, Tin House, Fence and other publications. His story "Nightblooming" was awarded a 2010 PEN/O. Henry Prize.

Peter Golub is a Moscow born poet and translator. He has published original works and translations of Russian poetry in various journals and edited the new Russian Poetry feature for Jacket Magazine in 2008. He has one book of poems, My Imagined Funeral (Argo Risk 2007).

ART DIRECTOR:

Vanina Schick: Originally from England and with a bicultural background, Vanina studied graphic art in Paris, where she now works as a freelance designer. She’s as passionate about literature as she is about typography, which she believes go hand in hand. Culturally involved, she recently founded an art collective whose fanzine Alien Digest can be found online at http://www.aliendigest.com. You can also visit her on-linefolio at http://www.vaninaschick.com.

GUEST EDITORS FOR THE INAUGURAL ISSUE:

Mikhail Iossel: CEO and Director, Summer Literary Seminars. Mr. Iossel was born in Leningrad, USSR, and emigrated to the US in 1986. He writes both in English and Russian. He is the author of Every Hunter Wants to Know, a collection of stories (W.W. Norton) and co-editor of Amerika: Essays by Contemporary Russian Writers on the US (Dalkey Archive, 2004). His stories have been translated into several languages and included in Best American Short Stories and other anthologies. Winner of the Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, among other literary awards, he has taught at the University of Minnesota, New York University, Union College, and currently is on the faculty of the Concordia University creative writing program in Montreal, Canada.

Jeff Parker: Chief Operations Officer and Co-Director, Summer Literary Seminars. His fiction, nonfiction, and hypertext have appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, The Mississippi Review, The Iowa Review, and Columbia, among others. He is the co-editor of the anthology Amerika: Essays by Contemporary Russian Writers on the US (Dalkey Archive, 2004). He teaches in the creative writing program at Eastern Michigan University.

ADVISORY BOARD:

Steve Burtt (CEO Burtt PC)

Cathy Frierson (Russia historian/UNH)

Linor Goralik (poet and prose writer)

Christine Hume (poet)

Mikhail Iossel (SLS founder and director)

Dmitry Kuzmin (poet and essayist)

Paul Nemser (attorney)

Gina Ochsner (fiction writer)

Jeff Parker (SLS co-director)

Padgett Powell (fiction writer)

Martha Rhodes (poet and publisher/Four Way Books)

Alexander Skidan (poet, translator, and critic)

Ira Woods (writer and publisher/Leap Frog Press)

Matthew Zapruder (poet and publisher/Wave Books)