Genevieve Arlie is an Arts Fellow at the University of Iowa, where she’ll complete her MFA in literary translation in May '15. She also holds a BA in English from Stanford and an MA in Russian literature from Columbia. Her awards include a Pushkin Poetry Prize, a Stanley Research Grant, and a Kathryn Davis Peace Fellowship. For the ’14-’15 academic year, she’s the editor-in-chief of Exchanges, Iowa’s journal of literary translation. Her translations have appeared in The Brooklyn Quarterly and are forthcoming in St. Petersburg Review.