Paul Schmidt wrote many award winning translations. He held a Ph.D in Slavic Literature from Harvard and was a professor of Russian literature at the University of Texas and Wellesley College. His critical essays appeared in The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and Delos. He was a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Catherine Ciepiela is Professor of Russian at Amherst, and author of
The Same Solitude, a book about Marinas Tsvetaeva's long-distance romance with Boris Pasterna.
Honor Moore's collections of poems are
RedShoes,
Darling,
and
Memoir. She edited
Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America and is author of
The White Blackbird, a life of her grandmother, the painter Margarett Sargent.