Mishka Zakharin (despite his Russified name) is a native of Wisconsin—where his existence yet lingers lackadaisically along…  He earned a BA (since he already had enough ‘BS’) in English from UW-Whitewater, graduating Magna Cum Laude (or Madame Cum Loudly~), in 1992. He has since published more than 20 anthologies of poetry, prose, and miscellaneous ramblings, as well as numerous eBooks.  Mishka published his debut novel, Natalya’s Tale, in 2015 and is well into his second novel—a sort of a sequel to Homer’s Odyssey—and planning his third…

Influences in Mishka’s writing include the greats of 19th Century Russian literature, Shakespeare, Marx (specifically Groucho), Jack Kerouac, Piers Anthony, Pablo Neruda, and Steve Martin.