Dmitry BykovDmitry Bykov has published 96 books, including 12 novels, 6 biographies and 25 collections of poetry. He has won "The Big Book" three times and Brothers Strugatsky Prize four times. He participated in the Russian oppositional movement and was member of the Oppositional Coordination Council, was poisoned in 2019, but survived. He has taught at Princeton, UCLA, Bard, and currently at the University of Rochester, where his is the inaugural "Scholar in Exile." He currently lives happily with his wife, two sons, and daughter while working on "How to Fright. Poetics of Thriller" and a sci-fi novel "In Team."