Boris Fishman is the author of the novels Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo and A Replacement Life, and Savage Feast. Fishman was born in Minsk, formerly the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, and presently the capital of Belarus to a family of Jewish-Soviet origin. Fishman immigrated to the U.S. in 1988 with his family. He holds a BA in Russian literature from Princeton University and has written works of non-fiction and literary criticism.
