Kevin M. F. Platt
Kevin M. F. Platt is a translator of Russophone and Latvian poetry and the author of several scholarly works. He was the lead translator and editor of Hit Parade: The Orbita Group by Sergeĭ Timofejev, Artur Punte, Semyon Khanin, and Vladimir Svetlov (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015). Platt is a professor of Russian and East European studies at the University of Pennsylvania and graduate chair of the program in comparative literature and literary theory.