Russell Scott Valentino is an author, editor, and translator. His publications have appeared in the New York Times, The American Poetry Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. He has served as Editor at The Iowa Review, President of the American Literary Translators Association, and senior editor at Autumn Hill Books. He teaches in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures and the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington.

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