Boris Dralyuk is a literary translator and the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian literature for a number of years. His work has appeared in many publications, including the Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, London Review of Books, The Guardian, Granta, Poetry International, and other journals. He is the author of Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934 (2012) and translator of several volumes from Russian and Polish, including, most recently, Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories ), Andrey Kurkov’s The Bickford Fuse and Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales . He received first prize in the 2011 Compass Translation Award competition and, with Irina Mashinski, first prize in the 2012 Joseph Brodsky / Stephen Spender Translation Prize competition.