Eugene Ostashevsky is a Russian-American poet based in New York. His poetry collections include The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza and Iterature, both published by Ugly Duckling Presse. He is also the editor and main translator of OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism, which contains work by Daniil Kharms, Alexander Vvedensky, and other underground writers from 1930s Leningrad, published by Northwestern.

His work has won awards like NYFA and the National Endowment for the Arts.