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.
