Nina Kossman is a Moscow-born poet, playwright, writer, painter, and translator
of Russian poetry. Her short stories and poems in English have been published in journals
in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Among her published works are three
books of poems in Russian and English, two volumes of translations of Marina Tsvetaeva's
poems, two collections of short stories, and a novel. For Oxford University Press, she
edited the anthology Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths. Her writing
has been translated into Greek, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish, and she is the recipient
of a UNESCO/PEN Short Story Award, an NEA translation fellowship, and grants from Foundation
for Hellenic Culture, the Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, and Fundación Valparaíso. She lives in New York.
