Sharon Leiter

Sharon Leiter has written and published poetry and fiction, as well as literary criticism and creative nonfiction. She is the author of a volume of poetry, The Lady and the Bailiff of Time (Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1974) and a literary study of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, Akhmatova’s Petersburg (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983). A specialist in 20th century Russian literature, she taught at the University of Virginia between 1976 and 1983. She went on to a career as a government analyst in Russian affairs, and is a consultant for RAND.