Aleksandra Tsibulia

Aleksandra Tsibulia is a poet, literary critic, and art historian who resides in Saint Petersburg and works at the State Hermitage Museum. Born in 1990, she belongs to a new generation of Russian poets who came of age in the post-Soviet era. In 2015 she won the prestigious Arkady Dragomoshchenko Award for young Russophone poets for her distinctive poetics giving attention to the unnoticed lives of people and things. Her first book of poetry, Путешествие на край крови (Journey to the edge of blood), appeared in 2014, and she has just published a new book of poetry titled Колесо обозрения (The ferris wheel), from which these poems are taken. She regularly participates in international festivals, including this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, and her poetry has been translated into English, Italian, Korean, Swedish, and Finnish.