Irina Mashinski was born in Moscow and completed her Ph. D. in Earth Science at Moscow University. After emigrating to the United States in 1991, she earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetics). She is the author of The Naked World (MadHat Press, 2022) and Giornata (Červená Barva Press, 2022), as well as fourteen books of poetry and essays in Russian. Mashinski is co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk, of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015) and Cardinal Points, the journal of Slavic literature in English (Brown University), and co-translator of Lev Ozerov’s Portraits Without Frames (NYRB Classics, 2018).