Anna Halberstadt presents her new book of short prose and poetry "Classification of Objects" and reads in English and Russian.

Her stories go back to her experience of writing her theses in the Moscow Institute of Psychology in the lab of the legendary Fyodor Dmitrievich Gorbov, who chose Gagarin to be the first astronaut, then working as a young psychologist at the Kashchenko psychiatric hospital in the late 1970s and finally arriving to the US and four months later starting her work with refugees from the USSR in a mental health clinic in Coney Island.

Anna Halberstadt grew up in Lithuania. She was trained as a psychologist at Moscow University and in the U.S. She is a poet and a translator form Russian, Lithuanian and English.Her poetry in English was widely published in journals such as Caliban, Cimarron Review, Literary Imagination (Oxford Journals), in Russian in Arion, Interpoezia, Children of Ra and many others. Anna’s poetry was translated into Lithuanian, Bengali, Ukrainian and Tamil. She published two collections of poetry in English – Vilnius Diary and Green in a

Landscape with Ashes, Snowstorm in March is forthcoming in Mad Hat Press in 2025 and three collections of poetry in Russian – Transit, Gloomy Sun, Winged Psyche in Garlic Sauce.

 Anna published translations of poetry by Eileen Myles, Selected,  Selected, Nocturnal Fire by Edward Hirsch, Spring is Love, by Ausra Kaziliunaite, Transformation by Adam Zagaewski,  A Man Needs Only a Room by Valdimir Gandelsman, in collaboration with Olga Livishin and Andrew Janco,   Maria Galina’s collection, translated in collaboration with Ainsley Morse,  Communiques,  was published by  Tsikada in 2024. She guest-edited two volumes of Russian poetry in English translation for The Café Review (2019 and 2020 and an anthology of Ukrainian poetry in collaboration with Philip Nikolayev, in 2024. Her book of short prose Classifiacation of Objects, came out in Free Press in 2025.

Anna Halberstadt is a recipient of the International Merit Award by Atlanta Review, 2016.  She was nominated twice for She received a Poetry prize by the Russian literary journal Children of Ra in 2016.  Prize for best Poetry entry by Zarubezhnye Zapiski in 2017.Persona PLUS journal called Translator of the Year 2017 for her translation of Bob Dylan's poem Brownsville Girl. Vilnius Diary in Lithuanian has become one of the TOP10 books, published in Lithuania in 2017, named by the Lithuanian news site Lt.15. It was also chosen for the list of most important books in translation in 2017 by the Lithuanian Translators Association. Her  book of Selected Poems in Lithuanian translation, Transit, was named one of TOP15 poetry books of 2020 by Lt.15.