Boris Dralyuk holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA. His poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in a variety of literary and academic journals, including Poetry International, Zeek, Slavic and East European Journal, and Russian History. He is the translator of Leo Tolstoy’s How Much Land Does a Man Need (Calypso Editions, 2010), and co-translator of Polina Barskova’s The Zoo in Winter: Selected Poems (Melville House, 2011). He serves as an editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.