A writer and literary translator, James Manteithstudied at Middlebury College and St. Petersburg State University. His nonfiction translations have been published by the journal Arts and World Scientific Press, while his poetry translations and essays have appeared in Cardinal Points, St. Petersburg Review, International Poetry Review, works & conversations, Paradigma, ART-platFORMA, caesura, Clade Song, Terra Nova, convolvulus, and Apraksin Blues as well as in the anthologies of the International Association of Historical Psychology. He is the translator of Tatyana Apraksina’s California Psalms (Radiolarian) and of the collected works of Mike Naumenko (forthcoming from AST), with his commentary in both editions.
Gjekë Marinaj’s Teach Me How to Whisper: Horses and Other Poems, co-translated by the author and Frederick Turner (Syracuse University Press, 2023), marks the English debut of an Albanian-bor…