Alexei Tsvetkov

Alexei Tsvetkov:  is a Russian poet currently living in Washington DC.  His most recent collection of poems, Names of Love(Novoe izdatelstvo, 2007), received the Andrei Bely Prize for poetry.  Together with Sergei Gandlevsky, Bakhyt Kenjeev, and Alexander Soprovsky he founded the unofficial group of poets “Moscow Time.”  In 1975 he was arrested and deported from Moscow and in the same year emigrated to the United States and entered the University of Michigan graduate school and was awarded a Ph.D. degree.  He taught Russian language at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, then worked as an international broadcaster at the Voice of America radio station.  From 1989 until 2007 he worked at the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, first in Munich, later in Prague. Currently he is a freelance writer based in New York City.