OKSANA VASYAKINA is a Russian poet and curator. Her debut poetry collection, Women's Prose, was short-listed for the Andrei Bely Prize in 2016, and her debut novel, Wound, won the NOS Prize in 2021. ELINA ALTER is a writer and translator. Her work appears in The Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB, The Paris Review, The New England Review, and elsewhere. She is the editor of Circumference, a journal of translation and international culture.
""A family history, a road trip through contemporary Russia, Steppe is as unflinching and capacious as the landscape from which it takes its name. Vasyakina is a rare truthsayer, a voice of her generation. I loved this."" —Jessi Jezewska Stevens, author of Ghost Pains