Irina Mashinski (Russian: Ирина Викторовна Машинская), born 9 April 1958, is a Russian-American poet and essayist.
Biography
editMashinski was born in Moscow in 1958.[1] She received her Ph.D. in 1991 from Moscow University where she studied paleogeography.[2] During Perestroika, she founded “Bullfinch,†a children’s literary studio in Moscow. In 1991, she moved to the United States where she teaches high school mathematics, and history and meteorology.[where?][citation needed]
In the USSR was a member of an unofficial literary group Sokilniki. Upon her emigration started publishing in various journals in Russia, Europe, and the US. She is co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk, of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015). Mashinski is a co-founder, with Oleg Woolf. and current editor-in-chief, of the Cardinal Points/Стороны Света literary Project. Co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk, of the Cardinal Points, the journal of Brown University’s Slavic Department.
Selected publications
edit- Mashinski, Irina (2022-03-15). The Naked World. Cheshire: MadHat Press. ISBN 978-1-952335-39-6.[3]
- Chandler, Robert; Dralyuk, Boris; Mashinski, Irina (2015-12-29). The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry. UK: National Geographic Books. ISBN 978-0-14-119830-9. OCLC 894339755.[4]
- Mashinski, Irina; Dralyuk, Boris (2022-11-06). Giornata. Cervena Barva Press. ISBN 978-1-950063-60-4.
- Mashinski, Irina (2013). Ophelia and the Trowel (in Russian). ISBN 978-1-938781-68-1.
Book of Reflections. [Kniga otrazhenii]. In Russian. Ekaterinburg. Armchair Scientist/InVersia, 2021.
Delaware [Delaver]. In Russian. Moscow: Book Review (ARGO-RISK), 2017.
Wolf [Volk]. Selected poems. In Russian. Moscow: NLO, 2009.
Raznichinets First Snow and Other Poems [Raznochinets pervyi sneg I drugie stikhotvorenia]. In Russian. New York: StoSvet Press, 2009.
The Wayfarer Is Dreaming That [Putniku Snitsia]. In Russian. Moscow: Project O.G.I.: 2004.
Poems [Stikhotvorenia]. In Russian. Moscow: Classics of the 21st Century Publishing House, 2001.
Simpler Times [Prostye Vremena]. In Russian. Tenafly: The Hermitage Publishers, 2000.
After the Epigraph. [Posle Epigrafa]. In Russian. Slovo/Word: NYC, 1996.
Because We Are Here. [Potomu Chto My Zdes', poems, in English and Russian] New York: Lunar Offensive Press, 1995.
Lev Ozerov. Portraits without Frames. Translated by Maria Bloshteyn, Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk, and Irina Mashinski. New York: NYRB Classics, 2018.
Craig Czury. Parallel Rivertime. In English and in Russian. Translated into Russian by Irina Mashinski. PETROPOL', St.Petersburg, Russia, 1999.
Cardinal Points. The annual literary journal. Edited by Boris Dralyuk, Irina Mashinski, and Robert Chandler. // Stosvet Literary Project. Editor-in-Chief
Awards and honors
editMashinski is the recipient of several Russian literary awards
In 2021 Mashinski and Boris Dralyuk won first prize in the 2012 Joseph Brodsky / Stephen Spender competition for their translation of 'Field Hospital' by Arseny Tarkovsky.[5]
Pushcart (2023) nomination (Giornata).[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ Blumberg-Kason, Susan (2022). "The Naked World: A Tale with Verse". World Literature Today; Norman. Vol. 96, no. 6. pp. 74–75 – via Proquest.
- ^ "Russian American Cultural Center". www.russianamericanculture.com. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
- ^ Reviews of The Naked Word
- Blumberg-Kason, Susan (2022). "The Naked World: A Tale with Verse". World Literature Today; Norman. Vol. 96, no. 6. pp. 74–75 – via Proquest.
- "THE NAKED WORLD". Russian Life; Montpelier. 65 (4): 66. 2022 – via Proquest.
- ^ Reviews of the Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
- Morse, Ainsley (2016). "Review of Cardinal Points Literary Journal". The Slavic and East European Journal. 60 (1): 143–145. ISSN 0037-6752.
- Kelly, Martha M. F. (2016). "Review of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski". Slavic Review. 75 (3): 790–792. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.75.3.0790. ISSN 0037-6779.
- Pratt, Sarah (2016). "Review of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry. Penguin Classics". The Russian Review. 75 (1): 152–152. ISSN 0036-0341.
- ^ Tarkovsky, Arseny; Chegra, Sergei; Brodsky, Joseph (2013). "The Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Prize". Ambit (214): 44–47. ISSN 0002-6972.