Anne O. Fisher

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Anne O. Fisher’s latest translation is Ksenia Buksha’s novel The Freedom Factory (2018), published by Phoneme Media. With poet Derek Mong, Fisher co-translated The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin, winner of the 2018 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation (four of Amelin’s poems appeared in the September 2017 issue of WLT). With bilingual writer Margarita Meklina, Fisher co-edited the folio Life Stories, Death Sentences: Contemporary Russian-Language LGBTQ+ Writing, forthcoming in In Translation in conjunction with Pride Month 2019.

Ten Translations (and Counting) of Pioneer Summer: Approaches and Techniques

September 15, 2025 Anne O. Fisher
Pioneer Summer, also referred to in English as “Summer in a Pioneer Necktie,” is a queer romance written in Russian in 2016 by Ukrainian author Kateryna Sylvanova and Russian author Elena Mal…
What We Translate When We Translate Literature: On Ksenia Buksha’s The Freedom Factory

December 4, 2018 Anne O. Fisher
Ksenia Buksha / Courtesy of the author With apologies to Raymond Carver, what do we translate when we translate literature? What are we doing? And how do we do it? There…