Ludmilla Petrushevskaya has published stories in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and n + 1. Born in 1938, she is one of Russia's most celebrated contemporary authors. She lives in Moscow.
Anna Summers (translator/introducer) is the coeditor and co-translator of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby and the editor and translator of There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself. Born in Moscow, she now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.