Keith Gessen (Konstantin Alexandrovich Gessen) was born in Moscow in 1975 and came to the United States with his family when he was six years old. He is a co-founder of the literary magazine <i>n+1</i> and the author of the novels <i>All the Sad Young Literary Men</i> and <i>A Terrible Country</i>. He has written about Russia for the London Review of Books, <i>n+1</i>, the <i>Nation</i>, the <i>New Yorker</i>, and the <i>New York Times Magazine</i>, and has translated or co-translated several books from Russian, including <i>Voices from Chernobyl</i> by Svetlana Alexievich, <i>There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby</i> by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, and <i>It's No Good</i> by Kirill Medvedev. He is also the editor of the <i>n+1</i> books <i>What We Should Have Known</i>, <i>Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager</i>, and <i>City by City</i>. He lives in New York with his wife, the author and publisher Emily Gould, and their son, Raphy, who likes squishy candy.<br/><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Gessen">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Gessen</a>