Joan BrooksJoan Brooks is a writer and translator based in Pittsburgh, PA. Their interests include autoethnography, queer theory, and the Russophone world. They have translated numerous contemporary Russian authors, particularly leftist and queer-feminist poets and they contribute regularly to The Russian Reader translation blog (https://therussianreader.com/tag/joan-brooks/). They are also the author of Greetings, Pushkin!: Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard (Pittsburgh UP, 2016) and numerous scholarly articles. Read More Read Less