Alex Cigale (New York, New York) has had work recently published in The Cafe, Colorado, North American Review, Drunken Boat, McSweeney's, and Zoland Poetry, and has poems forthcoming in St. Petersburg Review and Tar River Poetry. His translations from Russian can be found in "Crossing Centuries: the New Generation in Russian Poetry" (Talisman House Publishers, 2000) and in other journals.