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Fiona Bell


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Translations from the Russian


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


Cultural Criticism


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

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 writes about Russian literature, gendered violence, and comedy.
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 several plays by St. Petersburg playwright Olga Ezhova.
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.