IAN SINGLETON

Ian Ross Singleton is a writer and a translator of literature from the Russian and Ukrainian languages. He teaches Writing and Critical Inquiry at SUNY Albany and has taught Creative Writing most recently at 92Y. His debut novel Two Big Differences, about the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity, came out in 2021 and has been called a “masterpiece” by Russian writer in exile Dmitry Bykov. Two of his translations from Russian, “Odesa Accent” by Galina Itskovich and “Being Famous” by Boris Pasternak, were longlisted for the 2026 Deep Vellum Best Literary Translations. His translations of Ukrainian poets Antonina Tymchenko, Natalka Marynchak, and Iryna Ivanchenko have been or are being published by various presses. He is currently undertaking a translation of the 1928 novel The Shipwright by Yuri Yanovsky for Harvard University Press.