Wallace Kaufman

Wallace Kaufman is a science writer whose fiction, nonfiction, journalism, and poetry have appeared in major magazines and newspapers in the U.S., England, and Kazakhstan. He is a graduate of Duke University and he earned an M.Lit. from Oxford University. His research and reporting has taken him to Central and South America and to the Arctic and Pacific coasts of Siberia. In Latin America he helped indigenous writers establish themselves and translated the first two books by Mayan writer Victor Montejo. In Kazakhstan he worked with Kazakhs on translations of their principal writers. His own translations of German, French, and Spanish poetry and fiction have appeared in several magazines. His books include Invasive Plants, Coming Out of the Woods, No Turning Back, and The Beaches Are Moving.