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.

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by Zinovy Zinik

When Clea returns to London with her new Russian husband, she is surprised to see him become even more eccentric.

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.

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by Nina Kossman

“13 short pieces…pungently convey the effects of growing up under a totalitarian regime.”                       .—Publishers Weekly

Other Shepherds: Poems with Translations from Marina Tsvetaeva by Nina Kossman
by Nina Kossman

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

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