Boris Fishman

<p></p><p>Boris Fishman was born in Minsk, Belarus, and emigrated to the United States in 1988. His work has appeared in the <em>New Yorker</em>, the <em>New York Times Magazine</em>, the <em>New York Times Book Review</em>, <em>Travel </em>+ <em>Leisure</em>, the <em>London Review of Books</em>, <em>New York </em>magazine, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, and the <em>Guardian</em>, among other publications. He is the author of the novels <em>A Replacement Life</em>, which was a <em>New York Times </em>Notable Book of the Year and winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association’s Sophie Brody Medal, and <em>Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo</em>, which was also a <em>New York Times </em>Notable Book of the Year. He teaches in Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program and lives in New York City.</p>