Dana Golin was born in Riga, Latvia, and has lived in the US since 1981. Her own poems (in Russian,) appear in Gvideon, Novy Zhurnal, Storony Sveta, and Druzhba Narodov, and her translations in Atlanta Review, Cortland Review, Eleven Eleven, Harvard Review, International Poetry Review, Plume and Modern Poetry in Translation. She currently works as a Psychotherapist at a New York City nursing college. From 2011 to 2013, she was an Assistant Professor at the American University of Central Asia, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. [Image: Narista Alieva]