OKSANA VASYAKINA is a Russian poet, artist, and feminist activist. Her debut book of poetry Women's Prose was shortlisted for The Andrei Bely Prize in 2016, and the original Russian-language edition of Wound won the prestigious NOS Prize in 2021. She lives in Moscow.

ELINA ALTER is a writer and translator. Her work appears in The Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB, The Paris Review, The New England Review, and elsewhere. She is the editor of Circumference, a journal of translation and international culture.