Nina Kossman

Biography:

Moscow born, Nina Kossman is a painter, sculptor, bilingual writer, poet and playwright.

Her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in Philadelphia and New York.

The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a UNESCO/PEN Short Story Award, grants from Foundation for Hellenic Culture and Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, she is the author of two books of poems in Russian and English as well as the translator of two volumes of Marina Tsvetaevas’s poetry: “Poem of the End” (Ardis/Overlook) and “In the Inmost Hour of the Soul” (Humana Press) .

Her other books include “Behind the Border” (HarperCollins, 1994) and “Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths” (Oxford University Press, 2001). Three of her plays have been produced off-off-Broadway; one of her plays was included in “Best Women Playwrights 2000.” Her translations of Russian poetry have been anthologized in Twentieth Century Russian Poetry (Doubleday, 1993), The Gospels in Our Image (Harcourt Brace, 1995), The World Treasury of Poetry (Norton, 1998), and Divine Inspiration (Oxford University Press, 1998). Her poems and short stories were published in a wide spectrum of US and Canadian literary magazines, such as Tin House, The Threepenny Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Columbia, etc.

Her Russian poems and short stories have been published in Новое русское слово , Новый Журнал, Вестник, Этажи, Слово/Word, etc. She lives in New York.