Literary Showcase Participants

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.