Bryon MacWilliams won awards for his reporting at U.S. daily newspapers before moving to Moscow, where he was based for nearly twelve years as a foreign correspondent reporting from the territories of the former Soviet Union. His journalism, essays, poetry, and literary translations have appeared in publications big and small, including: "The New York Times," "The Chronicle of Higher Education," "The Philadelphia Inquirer," "The Literary Review," "B O D Y," "Solstice," "Nature," and "Science."