Mark Budman is a first-generation immigrant to the US. An engineer by training, he currently works as a medical interpreter. His fiction has appeared in Catapult, Witness, World Literature Today, Mississippi Review, The London Magazine (UK), McSweeney’s, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is the author of the novel “My Life at First Try,” published by Counterpoint, and co-editor of immigration-themed anthologies published by Ooligan Press, Persea, and University of Chester (UK). markbudman.com A trailer for his anthology "You have Time for This." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBfOw1... *** Mark Budman’s "My Life at First Try," is smart and funny and compelling, and in an era when both the immigrant experience and the resurgent aggression of the once-Soviet Russia are central issues, the novel is timely, as well. This is a splendid debut by an important new American voice. Robert Olen Butler, a Pulitzer Prize winner, the author of "Intercourse" and "Severance" *** A review of "My Life at First Try" in Publishers Weekly. http://www.publishersweekly.com/artic...