Zaure BatayevaZaure Batayeva (1969) is the driving force behind this anthology, the one who first dreamed of bringing a collection of Kazakh women's writing into English. Besides being the author and translator of two pieces included here, and a noted cultual commentator and critic, she is a prolific translator into Kazakh, recently of Sarah Cameron's groundbreaking historical work, The Hungry Steppe. Read More Read Less