Polina Barskova

Polina Barskova, born in Leningrad in 1976, was a literary wunderkind and published her début when she was only eight years old. She studied Classical Philology in Saint Petersburg, Slavistics in Berkeley and currently teaches at the Hampshire College in Amherst. Apart from her extensive poetic work – eight volumes of poetry published since 1991 – she dedicates her work as a literary scholar and editor to the poets of the siege of Leningrad. Living Images, her first volume of prose, has been awarded the Andrei Bely Prize. She has been living in the USA since 1998.