Keith Gessen

Keith Gessen was born in Moscow in 1975 and emigrated to the States with his family in 1981. A founding editor of n+1, Gessen is the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men (Viking, 2008). His translation (with Anna Summers) of fabled Moscow iconoclast Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby, was published by Penguin in 2009.