Polina Barskova

Polina Barskova, born in Leningrad in 1976, studied classical philology in Saint Petersburg and Slavic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published poetry and worked as a literary scholar and editor on the poets of the Leningrad blockade. Her prose debut, Living Pictures, received the Andrei Bely Prize. Her poetry collection Mutabor was published in German in 2023.