Byron Lindsey is a translator of contemporary Russian literature into English. His translations include short works by Vladimir Makanin, Viktor Pelevin, Yuri Trifonov, Evgeny Shklovsky and others. A winner of the Eugene C. Kayden National Translation Award (1997) and the William Arrowsmith Translation Award (AGNI Quarterly, 2000), he is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico and lives in Moscow.