Alex Cigale

ALEX CIGALE’s own English language poems have appeared widely, in such periodicals as the Colorado Review, Green Mountains Review, North American Review, Tampa Review, and The Literary Review, and his translations from the Russian can be found in Cimarron Review, Literary Imagination, Modern Poetry in Translation, New England Review, PEN America, and elsewhere. He is on the editorial boards of COEUR journal, MadHat Annual, St. Petersburg Review, Third Wednesday, and Verse Junkies. From 2011 until 2013, he was Assistant Professor at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He was born in Chernovtsy, Ukraine, and lived in St. Petersburg, Russia, near Tel Aviv, Israel, in and near Rome, Italy before immigrating with his family to the United States, in 1975.  His Mikhail Eremin, Poems, New and Selected, is forthcoming from University of Iowa Press.