Andrea Gregovich earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from University of Nevada Las Vegas and has been honing her skills as a translator of Russian literature with a focus on the work of Vladimir Kozov. Author Vladimir Kozlov’s book, USSR: Diary of a Perestroika Kid is about growing up in the crumbling industrial city Mogilev during the last few years of the Soviet Union. Born in 1972 in Belarus, his fiction and nonfiction have been long-listed for awards in Russia such as the National Bestseller prize, the Big Book prize, and nominated twice for GQ Russia’s Writer of the Year. Recently, USSR was nominated for the Read Russia prize.