Madeleine Wulfahrt Madeleine Wulfahrt (née Pulman-Jones) is a writer living in New York. She has written essays for Penguin Modern Classics, MUBI Notebook, The Times Literary Supplement, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in publications including PN Review, The Adroit Journal, and Still Point. She is the recipient of a Harper-Wood Creative Writing & Travel Award and a University of Warsaw Prize for Literary Translation. Between 2017 and 2022, she spent time living in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Warsaw. As a translator, she works primarily from Russian and Polish into English. She is currently writing her first book.

In her criticism, essays, and fiction, Madeleine draws on a scholarly background in international literature and cinema. She received her BA in Russian, Polish, and Spanish from the University of Cambridge in 2021, and later completed an MA in Near Eastern Studies at SOAS University of London, where she focused on Polish and Yiddish-language literature in Israel, with a minor in Turkish language and culture. In 2025, she completed a second MA in Polish, Russian, and Yiddish at Columbia University.

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Selected Writing

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 Essays
Fiction
Interviews
Poetry
 Translation
  • ‘February’ by Dana Sideros (translated from the Russian) | Modern Poetry in Translation issue no. 2, 2022 | July 2022