Literary Showcase Participants

Ann Kjellberg

Ann Kjellberg is the founding editor of the magazine Little Star and the literary executor of Joseph Brodsky.


Edward Kasinec

Edward Kasinec holds graduate degrees from Columbia University (M.A., 1968, M.Phil.,1979), and Simmons College (M.L.S., 1976). In addition Kasinec has been awarded a Certificate in Archival Studies from American University ( l971), as well as a Certificate in Appraisal Studies (Fine and Decorative Arts, 2010) from New York University. His professional career includes service as Reference Librarian/Archivist for the Harvard University Library and the Ukrainian Research Institute Library (1973-80); Librarian for Slavic Collections, University of California, Berkeley, Library (1980-84); and Curator, Slavic and Baltic Division, The New York Public Library (1984-2009). He presently holds appointment as a Research Scholar and Staff Associate, Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Kasinec has published more than two hundred refereed articles and books, and has been acknowledged in as many academic publications. Over the last thirty years, he has lectured on issues of bibliography and librarianship throughout the world, including at Sapporo University, Hebrew University, and many North American and Eastern European institutions. He has served as consultant to library programs at the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota, University of Texas, the University of Pennsylvania, St. John's University (Collegeville, Minnesota), Saint Paul’s University (Ottawa), the National Library of Canada, Princeton University, the Tolstoy Foundation, University of Toronto, and Seton Hall University.


Ken Kalfus

Ken Kalfus lived in Moscow from 1994 to 1998 and has set two works of fiction there, Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies and The Commissariat of Enlightenment, which was translated into Russian by Tatiana Borovikovaya and published by Eksmo in 2006. Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; the title story, "Pu-239," was the basis for an HBO movie that aired in 2007. Kalfus is also the author of A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. His new novel, Equilateral, will be published early next year. Kalfus has received a Pew Fellowships in the Arts award and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He now lives in Philadelphia.

Photo Credit: Equilateral


Michael Greenberg

Michael Greenberg is director of Gesharim Bridges of Culture, which publishes Jewish-themed books in Russian, working in collaboration with nonprofit organizations in Jerusalem and Moscow. Gesharim Bridges of Culture also runs a cultural program on Jewish civilization. 

Photo Credit: Vodnik, creative commons


Keith Gessen

Keith Gessen was born in Moscow and emigrated to the US with his family in 1981. He is a founding editor of the literary magazine n+1 and the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men. He is also the translator of Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl and (with Anna Summers) Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby.


Alexander Genis

Alexander Genis is an essayist and journalist whose books cover a broad range of cultural and literary topics, and are suffused with Genis’s knowledge of American and Russian culture. A book of Genis’s essays, Red Bread, was translated into English in 2000. Genis’s media work includes hosting the “American Hour” program on Radio Liberty since 1984 and writing for New Newspaper. He also hosted a television show on the Russian “Culture” channel and wrote six books in collaboration with the late Peter Vail, a journalist colleague from Radio Liberty.

Photo credit: AGenis


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