Konstantin Kulakov, New York/Dominican Republic is an award-winning poet born in Zaoksky, former Soviet Union and holds an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary in New York. Kulakov’s debut book of poems, Excavating the Sky, was published by Dialogue Foundation Books in 2015. His work has appeared in Spillway, Phoebe, Christian Century, Harvard Journal of African American Policy, Tidal Basin Review, and Ghost Town, among others.