Nikolai B. Popov

Nikolai Boris Popov () (born 1952) is a translator.
Life.
He graduated from University of Washington, with a Ph.D., in 1994. 
In 2001, he participated at a conference at University of Iowa International Writing Program.
He teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. A James Joyce scholar and translator, he co-translated with Heather McHugh a collection of the poems of Blaga Dimitrova, and Paul Celan. On May 13, 2012, he fell into a crevasse while skiing near Whistler but was unscathed.
From 1987 to 2010 he was married to poet Heather McHugh.