Sibelan Forrester wrote her doctoral dissertation on the poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva, and she has since published several articles and given numerous conference papers on Tsvetaeva. Her translations include poetry from Croatian, Russian and Serbian, most notably a bilingual edition of Elena Ignatova's poetry, THE DIVING BELL, from Zephyr Press (2006). She lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where she is Professor of Russian in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Swarthmore College.