Katie Farris is the author of BoysGirls (Marick Press) and co-editor of Gossip and Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poets. She is the associate professor at San Diego State University. Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press) and Deaf Republic (forthcoming in 2019 by Graywolf Press in USA and Faber & Faber in UK).