Alexander Cigale

Alex Cigale’s own English-language poems have appeared in Colorado, Green Mountains, and The Literary Reviews, and his translations in Cimarron Review, Literary Imagination, Modern Poetry in Translation, New England Review, PEN America, Two Lines, and World Literature Today. He is on the editorial boards of Mad Hatters’ Annual, St. Petersburg Review, and Verse Junkies. From 2011 until 2013 he was Assistant Professor at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He is a 2015 NEA Literary Translation Fellow, for his work on the poet of the St. Petersburg “philological school” Mikhail Eremin, and is the editor of the Spring 2015 Russia Issue of the Atlanta Review.