Tatiana Retivov
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Tatiana Retivov
Nw York, NY, USA / Kyiv, Ukraine / Silver Spring, MD, USA

Tatiana Retivov was born in New York to Russian émigré parents. She studied English and French literature at the University of Montana, where she received her B.A. In 1981, she received an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literature from the University of Michigan. Tatiana arrived in Ukraine in the 1990s as an interpreter for an American company and decided to stay there. Since her arrval in Ukraine, she actively engaged in literary translation and writing. In addition to curating an Art and Literature Salon in Kyiv, she established a publishing house. Kayala Press (kyalapublishing.com) publishes prose, poetry, and non-fiction in Kyiv. Due to the war, Tatiana had to flee Ukraine in the spring 2022.

Bookshelf
fireflies
by Dmitri Manin, Anna Krushelnitskaya

A hybrid scholarly and literary volume of popular Russian-language Soviet children’s texts alongside essays that outline the significance and meanings behind these popular texts.

cockroach cover
by Nina Kossman

A collection of nonsense poetry for readers who love Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc, and all things delightfully peculiar.

Naza s book
by Naza Semoniff

A haunting dystopia some readers have called “the new 1984.” In a society where memory is rewritten and resistance is pre-approved, freedom isn’t restricted; it’s redefined. As systems evolve beyond human control and choice becomes a simulation, true defiance means refusing the script, even when the system already knows you will.

Version 1.0.0
by Nina Kossman

 

A new book of poems by Nina Kossman. “When the mythological and personal meet, something transforms for this reader…” -Ilya Kaminsky

Videos
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EastWest Literary Forum Bilingual Poetry & Prose Reading. July 13, 2025.
Length: 2 hrs. 08 min