Shoshana Oli­dort is a crit­ic, writer, and trans­la­tor. She holds a PhD in com­par­a­tive lit­er­a­ture from Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty and is the web edi­tor for the Poet­ry Foun­da­tion. Shoshana’s work, includ­ing essays, book reviews, trans­la­tions, inter­views, and poems, has appeared in Asymp­tote, the Colum­bia Jour­nal, Elec­tric Lit­er­a­ture, LitHub, the Paris Review Dai­ly, Pub­lic Books, and the Times Lit­er­ary Sup­ple­ment, among oth­er outlets.