Fiona Bell is a literary translator and scholar of Russian literature. Her translation of Stories of a Life received a 2020 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant. Bell’s essays have appeared in Full Stop, Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere. She currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
‘In my diary I was always sassy, proud, and forbidding.’
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