Nina Kossman is a transdisciplinary artist. Her work is animated by an interest in nature, history, mythology, and bilingualism. A writer and painter, she exhibited her paintings internationally, and her writing has been published in a dozen languages, including French, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, German, Persian, Chinese, Bengali, and Japanese. Nina Kossman’s 11 books include poetry (in Russian and English), short prose (in Russian and English), children’s poetry, an anthology she edited for Oxford University Press, two volumes of translations of Marina Tsvetaeva’s poetry, and a novel. Her English-language work has appeared in over ninety magazines and anthologies and has been translated into twelve languages. Her plays have been produced in the US, the UK, and Australia. She received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and grants from the Onassis Foundation and the Foundation for Hellenic Culture. She is a founding editor of EastWest Literary Forum, a bilingual magazine. Born in the former Soviet Union, she lives in New York.
