Keith Gessen (Konstantin Alexandrovich Gessen) was born in Moscow in 1975 and came to the United States with his family when he was six years old. He is a co-founder of the literary magazine [i]n+1[/i] and the author of the novels [i]All the Sad Young Literary Men[/i] and [i]A Terrible Country[/i]. He has written about Russia for the London Review of Books, [i]n+1[/i], the [i]Nation[/i], the [i]New Yorker[/i], and the [i]New York Times Magazine[/i], and has translated or co-translated several books from Russian, including [i]Voices from Chernobyl[/i] by Svetlana Alexievich, [i]There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby[/i] by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, and [i]It's No Good[/i] by Kirill Medvedev. He is also the editor of the [i]n+1[/i] books [i]What We Should Have Known[/i], [i]Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager[/i], and [i]City by City[/i]. He lives in New York with his wife, the author and publisher Emily Gould, and their son, Raphy, who likes squishy candy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Gessen