Tatiana Retivov
Author Profiles

About the Author:

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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
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.

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by Tsipi Keller

Solitary Pleasures is a collection of short stories by Tsipi Keller.

1. Dislocation
by Julia Nemirovskaya and Anna Krushelnitskaya, editors

This collection focuses on the war between Russia and Ukraine as seen by Russophone poets from all over the world.

700x500 Picture Fiour Centuries
by Ilya Perelmuter (editor)

Launched in 2012, “Four Centuries” is an international electronic magazine of Russian poetry in translation.

Videos
Three Questions. A Documentary by Vita Shtivelman
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Poetry Reading in Honor of Brodsky’s 81st Birthday
Length: 1:35:40