Anatoly Kudryavitsky, is the owner and editor of Shamrock. Born in Moscow in 1954 of a Polish father and half-Irish mother, he lived in Russia and Germany, and now lives in Dublin as an Irish citizen. Educated at the Moscow Medical University (graduate 1978), he received a PhD in Immunology from the Moscow Medical Academy in 1987. Later, he studied Irish history and cultural heritage. In the following years he worked as a researcher in immunology, as a journalist and as a literary translator. He started writing poetry in 1978, but under the Communists was not permitted to publish his work openly. Since 1989 he has published two novels, a few novellas, a number of short stories, seven collections of his Russian poems, most recent being Graffiti (1998) and Visitors’ Book (2001), and a book of his English poems entitled Shadow of Time (Goldsmith Press, Ireland, 2005). His poems and short stories were translated into fourteen languages. In the 1990s he edited Strelets/The Archer and Inostrannaya Literatura/Foreign Literature literary magazines, an anthology of new Russian poetry entitled Poetry of Silence (1998), and Zhuzhukiny Deti(2000), an anthology of Russian short stories and prose miniatures written in the second half of the 20^th century. A Night in the Nabokov Hotel, an anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in his translation to English, was published by and is available from Dedalus Press, Ireland, 2006. Bamboo Dreams, an anthology of haiku poetry from Ireland (2012), has been published by and is available via Doghouse books.
 Morning at Mount Ring, and Capering Moons, collections of his haiku, have also been published by and is available to order via Doghouse Books (http://www.doghousebooks.ie), and so is his anthology of haiku poetry from Ireland, Bamboo Dreams.  He was the founder and first President of the Russian Poetry Society, as well as the founding member of the Irish Haiku Society. His haiku and senryu appeared in World Haiku Review, Frogpond, Notes from the Gean, A Hundred Gourds, Presence, The SHOp, Roadrunner, Kernel, Chrysanthemum and Haiku Scotland, as well as in several anthologies, and were translated into Japanese, Chinese, Croatian, German, Hungarian, Italian, French, Flemish and Russian. In 2003 he was awarded the Edgeworth Prize for poetry, in 2005 shortlisted for the Robert Graves Poetry Award. Among his haiku awards are Suruga Baika Prize of Excellence (Japan, 2007), Capoliveri Haiku Award (Italy, 2007) and Vladimir Divide Prize (Japan-Croatia, 2012). He has a website at

http://kudryavitsky.webs.com