Oksana Vasyakina

Oksana Vasyakina is a Russian poetess, activist, and curator of cultural projects. She was born in 1989 in Ust-Ilimsk and graduated from the Gorky Literature Institute in 2016. Vasyakina was awarded the Lyceum Prize in 2019. Her first book of poetry, Женская проза (Women’s prose), was pub- lished in 2016, and a cycle of poetic texts, Ветер ярости (The wind of fury), was published in 2019. The English-language translation of Vasyakina’s first novel, Wound, will be published in the US in 2023 by Catapult.