A Reading with Writer-in-Residence Helen Betya Rubinstein & Bela Shayevich

Helen Betya Rubinstein's essays and fiction have appeared in Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, and Jewish Currents, where she is a contributing writer. She has received recent from the Watermill Foundation, the Mastheads, and the GIDEST program at The New School, most recently, for her work on several books-in-progress. Her book Feels Like Trouble: Transgressive Takes on Teaching, Writing, and Publishing is forthcoming, and her booklet of lyric fictions, Because Sex Is a Story & Sex Is a Song, is available.

Bela Shayevich is a Soviet-American writer and translator and recent graduate of the University of Iowa's MFA in Nonfiction Writing Program. Her latest book is Elena Kostyuchenko's I Love Russia, co-translated with Ilona Yabzhin. She is also the translator of Svetlana Alexievich's Secondhand Time, and Vsevolod Nekrasov's I Live I See (with Ainsley Morse).  Her writing has appeared in n+1, Jewish Currents, and Harper's.