Alex Cigale’s translations from Russian, and his own English-language poems, have appeared in Colorado, Kenyon, New England, and The Literary Reviews, Literary Imagination, Modern Poetry in Translation, TriQuarterly, and PEN America. From 2011 until 2013, he was Assistant Professor at the American University of Central Asia and currently teaches Russian Literature at CUNY-Queens College. He is a 2015 NEA Literary Translation Fellow for his work on the poet of the St. Petersburg philological school Mikhail Eremin. His first book, Russian Absurd: the Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in February 2016.