Maxim Matusevich is a professor of history at Seton Hall University, where he also directs the Russian and East European Studies Program. Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, he has lived in the United States since 1991. Maxim has published extensively as a historian of Africa and the Cold War, but he also writes and publishes fiction and non-fiction. His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, the Bare Life Review, San Antonio Review, Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine, the museum of americana, and elsewhere.