Eugene Ostashevsky is a Russian-born American poet and translator. He was born in Leningrad, grew up in Brooklyn and is now based in Berlin and New York. His last full book of poetry, The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi, was translated into German and won the 2019 International Poetry Prize of the City of Muenster. Ostashevsky teaches at the Liberal Studies program at New York University; he has also served as the Siegfried Unseld Visiting Professor at Humboldt University; the Dorothea Schlegel Writer-in-Residence at Free University, and as a DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm fellow.