Irina Mashinski

Irina Mashinski was born in Moscow. She graduated from Moscow University, where she completed her Ph.D. in Earth Science. In 1991, she emigrated to the US, where she taught high school mathematics, as well as Russian language and culture at several universities. She is the author of The Naked World (MadHat Press, 2022) and Giornata (Červená Barva Press, 2022) and of twelve books of poetry and essays in Russian. The German edition of The Naked World, in Maria Meinel’s translation, Die Nackte Welt, appeared in 2024 (Elif Verlag). Mashinski is co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk, of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015) and co-translator of Lev Ozerov’s Portraits Without Frames (NYRB Classics, 2018). Her work has been translated into several languages and has appeared in Poetry International, World Literature Today, Asymptote, and elsewhere. Mashinski is the recipient of several literary awards and, with Boris Dralyuk, of the first prize in the 2012 Joseph Brodsky / Stephen Spender Translation Prize competition. In 2017, she received the Hawthornden Fellowship (Scotland). In 2023 she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Northeastern Pennsylvania and in New Jersey.