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Elina Alter

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Contributor

Elina Alter

Elina Alter is a writer and translator living in New York. Her recent translations from Russian have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Modern Poetry in Translation, the New England Review, The Paris Review Daily, and the Nashville Review. She is an oral history fellow at the Yiddish Book Center and the editor of Circumference, a journal of translation and international culture.

Articles by Elina Alter

There’s No Getting Out

By Olga Bragina

we won't recognize this city anymore

Translated from Russian by Elina Alter

Multilingual

The Water Freezes

By Alla Gorbunova

Your cheeks are pinked with Parnassus rose.

Translated from Russian by Elina Alter

Stories from “Ings & Oughts”

By Alla Gorbunova

It wasn’t a plane at all, but a car flying through the sky.

Translated from Russian by Elina Alter

Multilingual