Alex Cigale’s own English-language poems have appeared in numerous journals, including in Colorado Review, Green Mountains Review, North American Review, Tar River Poetry, Tampa Review, and The Literary Review, and his translations in Cimarron Review, Literary Imagination, Modern Poetry in Translation, New England Review, PEN America, Two Lines, and World Literature Today. 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 Mikhail Eremin of the St. Petersburg “philological school”. He serves on the editorial boards of MadHat Annual, The St. Petersburg Review, and Verse Junkies, and is the editor of the Spring 2015 Russia Issue of the Atlanta Poetry, and of an Indigenous Writing from the Former USSR feature in Fulcrum 8.

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