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Risa Shargel

RISA SHARGEL has traveled in Bulgaria for over three decades, living there in the 1990s and again in 2010-2012. She has completed a travel memoir that includes essays about the country’s history and culture, and is currently working on translating selected short fiction by Bulgarian author and playwright Stanislav Stratiev.

Contributor Bios for Issue 13 Summer 2018

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Issue 13 Summer 2018 HANIF ABDURRAQIB is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, was released in […]

The Snow Kept Falling by Stanislav Stratiev
(Translated from Russian by Risa Shargel)

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Translator’s Note: Under communist rule, the government strongly discouraged celebration of religious holidays. In a pragmatic nod to the difficulty of stopping Christmas celebrations altogether, the government used a carrot-and-stick approach to associate the celebrations with the New Year’s holiday instead. Much as the church had earlier absorbed pagan traditions such as survakane into Christmas, […]

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 13 Summer 2018

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INTERVIEWS Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad Joy Is Not Promised to You ESSAYS Joshua Bernstein The Gospel of Dearth Tom Larsen The Nightmare Next Door Jerome Richard Good and Decent People Janette Schafer The Miracle of Ordinary FICTION Eric Barnes Time Space Thomas Jacobs The Death of Z Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio Fighting for His […]

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