Anna Kreslavskaya was born and grew up in Ukraine (Zaporozhye & Kharkov). A philologist by profession, she worked as a teacher of Russian and world literature. She has been writing poetry her entire life. After she had emigrated, she lived between England and Belgium. Currently, she lives in the Netherlands. She is a winner of the First International (Russian-language) Internet Poetry Contest “The Emigré Lyre”.
When Clea returns to London with her new Russian husband, she is surprised to see him become even more eccentric.
“13 short pieces…pungently convey the effects of growing up under a totalitarian regime.” .—Publishers Weekly
A new book of poems by Nina Kossman. “When the mythological and personal meet, something transforms for this reader…” —Ilya Kaminsky
Original poetry by Nina Kossman, accompanied by a selection of poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated from Russian by Kossman. “The sea is a postcard,” writes Nina Kossman. There is both something elemental in this vision and—iron-tough.”
—Ilya Kaminsky