Matvei Yankelevich is the author of a long poem, *The Present Work* (Palm Press, 2006) and the forthcoming book *Boris by the Sea* (Octopus, 2009). His writing has appeared in Boston Review, Damn the Caesars, Fence, Open City, Tantalum, Zen Monster, etc. His translations have appeared in journals including Calque, Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, and The New Yorker. His translation of *Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms* (Overlook, 2007) has received praise from the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He is a co-translator of *OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism* (Northwestern University, 2006) and his translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "Cloud in Pants" is included in *Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky* (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2008). He teaches Russian Lit. at Hunter College. Matvei is a founding editor of Ugly Duckling Presse, where he designs books, co-edits 6x6 magazine, and edits the Eastern European Poets Series. From 1999 to 2001 he co-edited (with Yelena Gluzman) a theater-matters broadsheet, the EMERGENCY Gazette. He lives in Brooklyn, and teaches Russian Literature at Hunter College.

Born Philadelphia, 1923. Educated variously at University of Pennsylvania; University of California, Los Angeles; University of Chicago. Studies in composition with Stefan Wolpe. Commissions and awards include National Endowment for the Arts, van Leer Foundation, Bethsabeé de Rothschild Foundation. Works conducted by Ralph Shapey, Gary Bertini, Mark Zuckerman. Performances by Pat Spencer, Anita Cervantes, Da Capo Players. Published in Perspectives of New Music, Israel Music Publications. Editor, The Bard Forum (1993–96). Member, Graduate Committee, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts (1980–81, 1984–90). (1967–88) Professor Emeritus of Music.