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– Note on Contributors – WILLIAM MAX NELSON is a writer and historian born in California and raised in Maryland. He now lives in Canada where he is a professor at the University of Toronto. He has published numerous academic works on the intellectual history of the Enlightenment and the development of early modern globalization. LAURA ESTHER WOLFSON works as a translator of ­Russian, French, and Spanish to English. For many years, she served as the interpreter for Russian-speaking authors at the PEN World Voices Festival and as a PEN prison writing mentor. Her work has been listed as ‘notable’ in five of the last seven editions of Best American Essays. GARRET KEIZER is the author of eight books, including Getting Schooled (2014), Privacy (2012), and The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want (2010). He has been a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine since 2006, the same year he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction. His essays have appeared in Agni, The Boston Globe, Harper’s, The Kenyon Review, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Virginia Quarterly Review, as well as The Best American Essays for 2007, 2009, and 2012, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing for 2002. 158
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– Contributors – KAREN HOLMBERG is an associate professor teaching in the MFA Programme at Oregon State University. Her primary genre is poetry but she has written and published in many literary magazines including New England Review, Indiana Review and Black Warrior Review. Her most recent poetry collection, Axis Mundi, won the 2012 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. PATRICK MCGUINNESS is the author of the Man Booker and Costa listed The Last Hundred Days (2011), and the memoir Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory (2014) which won the Duff Cooper prize. He has also written two collections of poetry, several translations and a number of books about poetry, French literature and theatre. He lives in Caernarfon, and teaches in Oxford. DASHA SHKURPELA was born in Kyrgyzstan, lives in New York and works in painting, drawing and sculpture. She has exhibited her work internationally since 1995. She writes art criticism and explores past and present of the former Soviet space through looking at objects that remained. Dasha is an alumna of the American University in Central Asia, Central European University in Budapest, Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and the City University of New York Writers’ Institute. 159

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– Note on Contributors –

WILLIAM MAX NELSON is a writer and historian born in California and raised in Maryland. He now lives in Canada where he is a professor at the University of Toronto. He has published numerous academic works on the intellectual history of the Enlightenment and the development of early modern globalization.

LAURA ESTHER WOLFSON works as a translator of ­Russian, French, and Spanish to English. For many years, she served as the interpreter for Russian-speaking authors at the PEN World Voices Festival and as a PEN prison writing mentor. Her work has been listed as ‘notable’ in five of the last seven editions of Best American Essays.

GARRET KEIZER is the author of eight books, including Getting Schooled (2014), Privacy (2012), and The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want (2010). He has been a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine since 2006, the same year he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction. His essays have appeared in Agni, The Boston Globe, Harper’s, The Kenyon Review, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Virginia Quarterly Review, as well as The Best American Essays for 2007, 2009, and 2012, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing for 2002.

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