Guest Editor Anna Halberstadt

Anna Halberstadt: is a poet and translator from Russian, Lithuanian, and English. Her English poetry has been widely published in journals such as Caliban, Cimarron Review, and Literary Imagination. Her work has been translated into Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Tamil, and Bengali. She has published six poetry collections, including Vilnius Diary and Green in a Landscape with Ashes, and several in Russian. She has translated a range of notable poetry into Russian, including poetry by Eileen Myles and Edward Hirsch. She guest–edited two volumes of Russian poetry in English translation for The Café Review. She has received numerous accolades, including the International Merit Award by Atlanta Review (2016) and various poetry prizes from Russian literary journals and the Lithuanian Translators Association.