Boris Dralyuk

Boris Dralyuk (born in 1982)[2] is a Ukrainian-American writer, editor and translator. He obtained his high school degree from Fairfax High School and his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA. He has taught Russian literature at his alma mater and at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His writings have appeared in numerous outlets such as Times Literary Supplement, New Yorker, New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, Paris Review, Granta, World Literature Today, etc. He is chief editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books and the managing editor of Cardinal Points.[3]

Dralyuk is also known as a translator; among his translations, either on his own or with co-translators, are

• Mikhail Zoshchenko - Sentimental Tales (Columbia University Press, 2018)
• Isaac Babel - Red Cavalry (Pushkin Press, 2015)
• Isaac Babel - Odessa Stories (Pushkin Press, 2016)
• Maxim Osipov - Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Other Stories (NYRB Classics, 2019, with Alex Fleming and Anne Marie Jackson)
• Andrey Kurkov - Grey Bees (MacLehose Press, 2020)
• Lev Ozerov - Portraits Without Frames (NYRB Classics)
• Oleg Woolf - Bessarabian Stamps: Stories
• Polina Barskova - The Zoo in Winter: Selected Poems
• Dariusz Sośnicki - The World Shared
• Igor Golomstock - A Ransomed Dissident: A Life in Art Under the Soviets

He has also edited anthology volumes such as 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution (Pushkin Press, 2016), and The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015, co-edited with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski). His own work includes the book Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934 (Brill, 2012). A specialist in the history of noir fiction, he has written introductions to the reissued works of Raoul Whitfield.[4][5]

In 2022, Dralyuk published his debut poetry collection My Hollywood and Other Poems with Paul Dry Books.[6][7]