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Matvei Yankelevich
Matvei Yankelevich is the author of a long poem, *The Present Work* (Palm Press, 2006) and the forthcoming book *Boris by the Sea* (Octopus, 2009). His writing has appeared in Boston Review, Damn the Caesars, Fence, Open City, Tantalum, Zen Monster, etc. His translations have appeared in journals including Calque, Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, and The New Yorker. His translation of *Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms* (Overlook, 2007) has received praise from the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He is a co-translator of *OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism* (Northwestern University, 2006) and his translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "Cloud in Pants" is included in *Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky* (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2008). He teaches Russian Lit. at Hunter College. Matvei is a founding editor of Ugly Duckling Presse, where he designs books, co-edits 6x6 magazine, and edits the Eastern European Poets Series. From 1999 to 2001 he co-edited (with Yelena Gluzman) a theater-matters broadsheet, the EMERGENCY Gazette. He lives in Brooklyn, and teaches Russian Literature at Hunter College.
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