Eugene Ostashevsky is a Russian-American poet and translator. As poet, he is the author of ITERATURE (2005) and THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF DJ SPINOZA (2008), both published by Ugly Duckling Presse, as well as a dozen chapbooks. As translator who focuses on Russian underground literature of the 1930s, he bears the main responsibility for OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism and Alexander Vvedensky's An Invitation for Me to Think. His most recent award, the 2013 DAAD Artists-in-Berlin fellowship, is letting him focus on the practice and theory of multilingualism in poetry.
