Maria Vassileva is a Ph.D. candidate in Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard University. She has published two books of poetry, and is the co-editor of Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play and an Interview, a selection of works by Russian author Linor Goralik. Her translations of contemporary Bulgarian poetry have previously been published in Modern Poetry in Translation, Absinthe Magazine, and Drunken Boat.