About the Authors

Dimitri V. Psurtsev was born in 1960 near Moscow Russia and has spent all his life there. He has a PhD in Linguistics and published papers on linguistic theory and translation. He has translated some fiction, too (John Steinbeck, D.H. Lawrence, F.L. Baum, Dylan Thomas, David Malouf, A.S. Byatt). Dimitri divides his time between teaching at Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU), translating and writing. In 2001, his two books of poetry—Ex Roma Tertia and Tengiz Notepad—were published. He lives outside Moscow with his wife Natalia and daughter Anna.


F. D. Reeve’s recent books are The Toy Soldier, poems, and The Blue Cat Walks the Earth, poems with a CD of Reeve reading to the improv jazz of Joe Deleault and Don Davis (the trio go from venue to venue giving performances of the work). Reeve and his wife the novelist Laura Stevenson live in an old Vermont farmhouse.