Karl Gluck

Karl D. Gluck studied Russian and Chinese language and literature in college. Fluent in both languages, he worked as a translator and job developer in an organization that helped Russian and Chinese Americans in finding work. Raised in Florida he made New York City his home and flourished here. Writing under the pseudonym Altan Ogniedov he published his collection Phantasmagoria. His work appeared in several magazines among them, Ignite, The New Press, Open Mike: An Albany Anthology, Skidrow Penthouse and Rattapallax. He was the father of one daughter, Vivian, named after Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot.