Alex Braslavsky is a poet, translator, and scholar. She is a doctoral candidate in the Slavic Department at Harvard University, where she writes scholarship on Russian, Polish, and Czech poetry through a comparative poetics lens. She presented her research as a Harvard Horizons Scholar this year. Her translation of On Centaurs & Other Poems by Zuzanna Ginczanka was shortlisted for the American Literary Translators’ Association First Translation Prize. Her poems appear in Rhino, Conjunctions, and Colorado Review, among other journals. Her first chapbook, Pinkyard, will be released with Big Table Press this November.