A poetry evening with Irina Mashinski

Irina Mashinski was born in Moscow; she graduated summa cum laude from the Physical Geography Department of Moscow University where she later completed her Ph.D. studies, specializing in Paleoclimatology and General Theory of Landscape. In 1991, she moved to the US where she worked as an interpreter, a high school teacher of Mathematics and Science, and taught at universities. She lives between the Pocono Mountains and New Jersey and works as a private tutor at her own little company, Cardinal Points Tutoring.

Irina is the author of nine books of poetry and translations. Her first English-language collection, The Naked World, is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil. She is co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk, of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (2015), and co-founder (with the late Oleg Woolf) and editor-in-chief of the StoSvet literary project, which includes the Cardinal Points Journal, dedicated largely to Russian literature and currently published under the auspices of the Slavic Studies Department of Brown University (in English), and Storony Sveta journal (in Russian). She is the recipient of several Russian literary awards, and, with Boris Dralyuk, of the First Prize in the 2012 Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Translation Prize competition. In 2016, she won the Hawthornden Fellowship.