Maxim Osipov, a Russian writer and cardiologist, was born in 1963 in Moscow. He currently lives, writes, and practices medicine in Tarusa. His fiction and non-fiction have been collected in six Russian-language volumes and translated into 19 languages. His debut collection in English, Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Other Stories, translated by Boris Dralyuk, Alex Fleming, and Anne Marie Jackson, appeared in April 2019 from NYRB Classics.
