Polina Barskova

Polina Barskova was born in 1976 in Leningrad. She graduated at Berkeley, University of California. Barskova has published several collections of poetry, her first at the age of fifteen: Christmas (1991). Another four collections of poetry followed: A Squeamish Race (1993), Memory (1996), Evradei and Orfika, and Arias. Candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (Berkeley), she was awarded the Townsend Dissertation Writing Fellowship for 2005-06. The topic of her dissertation is Writing the End: Literature and Culture of the Aesthetic Opposition in Leningrad (1921-1934).