Author Profiles

About the Author:

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Mio Grand
Moscow, Russia

After she graduated from the Gorky Literature Institute, she worked as editor of the social-patriotic television program Street of Your Destiny. She performed her poems in the Tchaikovsky Moscow Philharmonic Hall, the House of Composers, the Center for Slavic Literature and Culture, the Orthodox Youth Club, and other organizations. Her poems were published in various magazines and set to music. A collection of stories for children with disabilities was published. She writes prose and poetry. She also paints, draws, and engages in other types of artistic creation.
Mio Grand is a pen name.

Bookshelf
100 pms war
by Julia Nemirovskaya, editor

This excellent anthology, compiled and edited by Julia Nemirovskaya, showcases poems by Russian (and Russian-speaking) poets who express their absolute rejection of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

DesyatyjKrug
by David Gay

The documentary novel “The Tenth Circle” tells the story of the life, struggle, and destruction of the Minsk ghetto, one of the largest in the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II. (Russian edition)

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by Charles Whittaker

Selected poems of Charles Whittaker.

1. cover for EWLF Sept. 11 2024. FINAL BOOK_cover Opravdanie martyshki (1)
by Nina Kossman

“Monkey’s Defense” is a collection of short stories and parables by Nina Kossman, bilingual author of several books of poetry and prose and translator of Marina Tsvetaeva’s poems into English.

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