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
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)

22.Golden on Amazon(1)
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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