Boris Dralyuk is an award-winning poet, translator, and critic who was also the editor- in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, and has taught there and the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He currently is a Presidential Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University o f Tulsa. His work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His most recent book is My Hollywood and Other Poems (Paul Dry Books, 2022).