Irina Kotova

Irina Kotova is a poet, prose writer, and essayist based in Moscow. She was born in the southern Russian city of Voronezh and holds degrees from the Voronezh State Medical Institute and from the Literary Institute in Moscow. She is the recipient of two literary awards and her work has appeared in many periodicals, including Vozdukh, Novy Mir, TextOnly, and NLO, and in four poetry collections. Her poems have been translated into Italian, Romanian, Greek, Portuguese, and English.