Jonathan Bolton (b. 1968) is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, where he teaches Czech and Central European literature. He has edited and translated a collection of a hundred poems by Ivan Wernisch, In the Puppet Gardens: Selected Poems, 1963-2005 (Michigan Slavic Publications, 2007), and has previously published translations of Wernisch and Petr Hruška in Circumference. He has also translated prose by Jiřina Hauková, Jiří Kratochvil, and Alexandra Berková. He is the author of Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism (Harvard University Press, 2012).