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Ivan Sokolov is a poet, translator, and critic from St. Petersburg and a PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley. The author of five books of poetry, he has translated G. M. Hopkins, Gertrude Stein, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, and other writers into Russian, and the poetry of Natalia Azarova into English. He serves as a contributing editor at GRIOZA, where in 2020 he curated an international festschrift for the centenary of Paul Celan’s birth.