Becky L. Crook is a writer and literary translator. In 2010, she founded SAND, an English literary journal, in Berlin. She led creative writing workshops in the Netherlands for two years before returning to the US. Between translation projects, she recently finished writing her own first novel. She lives with her family on an island near Seattle.
Russia is a vast country. I've often imagined it rising up and throwing its entire left side over the rest of Europe, swallowing it the way a bear swallows a mouse.
