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Irina Mashinski
Portrait by Sergey Samsonov
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Irina Mashinski is a bilingual poet and translator.
She has authored eight books of poetry in Russian; her most recent collections are
Volk [Wolf] (Moscow: NLO, 2009)
and Ophelia i masterok [Ophelia and the Trowel] (New York: Ailuros Publishing, 2013). Irina Mashinski's work has appeared in Poetry International, Fulcrum, Zeek, The London Magazine,
and other literary journals and anthologies. She is the co-editor (with Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk)
of the forthcoming Anthology of Russian Poetry from Pushkin to Brodsky (Penguin, 2015), as well as co-founder
(with the late Oleg Woolf) and editor of the literary journal
Storony Sveta, and co-editor (with Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk) of the journal
Cardinal Points.
She received First Prizes in the Russian America (2001) and Maximilian
Voloshin (2003) poetry competitions, and, with Boris Dralyuk, First
Prize in the 2012 Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Translation Prize
competition. Irina Mashinski holds a Ph.D. in Physical Geography from
Lomonosov Moscow State University and an M.F.A. in Poetics from New
England College.
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