LYDIA RAZRAN STONE has translated and analyzed biomedical research for NASA, and edits SlavFile, the quarterly newsletter for Slavic translators. She has published three books of translated poetry, and has a forthcoming dictionary of English sports idioms. Her translation of Krylov's fairy tales, The Frogs Who Begged for a Tsar (and 61 other Russian fables by Ivan Krylov), was published by Russian Life Books in 2010. Her latest project involves English versions of the songs of Bulat Okudzhava.