Irina Mashinski (Russian: Ирина Викторовна Машинская; born Irina Viktorovna Mashinskaya, April 9, 1958) is a Russian-American poet, essayist, translator, and editor.

[3] In 1984, after completing her studies,[4] she moved to the United States, where she began teaching literature, history, and meteorology at a High School,[5][6] before eventually becoming a university professor.

[7] First published in 1984, appearing in an anthology by the informal literary group Sokolniki.

[4] Mashinski has appeared in print more than seventy times,[8] and has served as editor-in-chief of the StoSvet project that publishes Cardinal Points,[9][10] the journal of Brown University’s Slavic Department.

She has also worked extensively in the field of translation, earning the first place Joseph Brosky/Stephen Spender Prize together with Boris Dralyuk for their translation of the poem Field Hospital by Arseny Tarkovsky,[11] in addition to her aforementioned work on Cardinal Points.