Ainsley Morse is a professor of comparative Slavic literatures at the University of California, San Diego, and translates from Russian, Ukrainian, and the languages of former Yugoslavia. Some recent translation publications include the Odesan poet Maria Galina’s Communiqués (with Anna Halberstadt, Cicada Press, 2024) and Goat Song by the early Leningrad modernist Konstantin Vaginov (with Geoff Cebula, NYRB Classics, 2025). With Galina Rymbu and Eugene Ostashevsky, she edited the anthology F-Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry (Isolarii, 2020), and she was poetry translations editor for Ukrainian Literary Modernism (ed. Babak, Ilchuk, Ustinov; ASP, 2026). Forthcoming books include Croatian conceptualist Vlado Martek’s Pre-poetry (WPB, 2026), the wry and raw minimalist poems of Yan Satunovsky (in Prosthesis Factory, co-translated with Philip Redko, WPB, 2027) and A Ukrainian Century: Poems 1900-1999 (co-edited with Ostap Kin, also WPB, 2027). With Anastasiya Osipova, she co-runs Cicada Press, a small press that publishes Eastern European and Russian poetry in translation. She also consults, translates, and edits for Tamizdat Project (Pkhentz, 2024; Exodus-22, 2025).