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Fiona Bell


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Translations from Russian


"We were sorting apricots..." by Elena Isaeva, American Chordata The Talnikov Family by Avdotya Panaeva, Columbia University Press Inside You in Your Absence by Tatsiana Zamirovskaya, Institute of the Cosmos Bulletin Stories of a Life by Nataliya Meshchaninova, Deep Vellum Sisters by Olga Ezhova, The Mercurian Chlorophyll: A Reminiscence by Tatsiana Zamirovskaya, World Literature Today People and Other Beings by Marianna Geide, Asymptote Journal Interview with Tatsiana Zamirovskaya, Punctured Lines


Cultural Criticism


What We Talk About When We Talk About This Title Format, Literary Hub Unraveling the Tragedy of Heterosexuality, Bitch Media On the "Russian Woman" in Erotica, European Review of Books Dostoevsky in Nagoya, Bloggers Karamazov Literature in a Time of Collusion, LA Review of Books Review of The Disaster Tourist, Full Stop Review of Older Brother, Full Stop What Can Prince Teach Us About Dostoevsky?, Bloggers Karamazov The Diva Mode of Translation, Asymptote Journal Review of Hotline, Full Stop On Inheritance: Maureen Sun’s The Sisters K, The Rumpus Review of High as the Waters Rise, Chicago Review Men Who Paint, Men Who Post: Visualizing Russian Masculinity, NYU Jordan Center Memory in Crisis: On Judith Schalansky’s An Inventory of Losses, LA Review of Books Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata on Stage: Domestic Violence and the Economics of Pity, NYU Jordan Center Review of Pina, Full Stop A Spectre is Haunting Russia, or A Chilling Journey from Ulyanovsk to Silicon Valley, NYU Jordan Center Caught Out: On Alexei Remizov’s Sisters of the Cross and The Little Devil and Other Stories, LA Review of Books Clowning Around with Dostoevsky, Bloggers Karamazov

Humor


Carrie’s Voice-Overs If “Sex and the City” Were Set in 2050, The New Yorker Andrei Platonov's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", Points in Case Isadora Duncan, Zumba Instructor, Resigns from the Rec Center, The Belladonna Raskolnikov Tries a 10-step Skincare Routine, The Belladonna Russian Literary Classics Set in 2020, Points in Case Rasputin's Top 10 Tips for Picking Up Women, Points in Case

About



Fiona Bell is a writer and literary translator from St. Petersburg, Florida. Her cultural criticism and humor writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Asymptote Magazine, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She is a reviews editor at Full Stop.
Her literary translations from Russian include Nataliya Meshchaninova’s Stories of a Life (Deep Vellum Press, 2022), the short fiction of Belarusian writer Tatsiana Zamirovskaya, and the first novel of nineteenth-century writer Avdotya Panaeva (Columbia University Press, 2024). 
As a playwright, director, and clown, Fiona brings physical theater practices to her scholarship and teaching. She currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut, where she is earning a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She can be reached at fiona.ina.bell@gmail.com.