SERENA VITALE is a professor of Russian language and literature at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. She is the author of numerous books and essays on Russian literature, and has also translated many Russian novels into Italian. Her acclaimed biographical work Pushkin’s Button was translated into English in 1999.
JAMIE RICHARDS is the translator of Giovanni Orelli’s Walaschek’s Dream, Nicolai Lilin’s Free Fall, and Giancarlo Pastore’s Jellyfish, among other works.