Ksenia Buksha Author

Ksenia Buksha was born in Saint Petersburg. She graduated from Saint Petersburg State University, where she studied economics. She has worked as a journalist, copywriter, and translator. She debuted as a fiction writer in 2001. In 2014, The Freedom Factory won the National Bestseller award and was a finalist for the Big Book Award. Ksenia Buksha’s work has been, or will soon be, translated into Polish, Chinese, French, and English.

Anne O. Fisher holds a Ph.D. in Russian Literature from The University of Michigan. She has taught Russian in several institutes of higher learning and is now a literary translator living in Indiana. Her first major translation, Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers, was shortlisted for the Rossica Prize in 2007 for Excellence in Russian to English Literary Translation. She also translated Ilf and Petrov’s two satirical novels, The Twelve Chairs and The Little Golden Calf, as well as fiction by Margarita Meklina and, with co-translator Derek Mong, the poetry of Maxim Amelin.