Grateful for the opportunity to read at @littranslate.bsky.social conference today, in illustrious company🖤📚

Philly! I am excited to bring Evgenia Nekrasova to our fair city to talk about folklore in contemporary Russian literature. I’ll be reading some of my translations of her magically pessimist tales as well. Please come, dress on theme if you like, bring friends & nemeses🖤📚🐻

Still a few spots left 🙂📚

Summer growth spurt📈🌱

❗️June 11, come join us

An Uzbekistan-Japan collab set in Tashkent

One of my OBERIU favorites. Kharms translated by Matvei Yankelevich

New York friends! Come hear some stories next week❄️
Free With RSVP: as.nyu.edu/departments/...

Sunday best🧡

How I learned today is Opening Day

Had my translation of a feminist anti-war witchy short story published on Friday 🖤

My grandma sent me some persimmon seeds from Central Asia. I buried them in soil in my Philly apartment. The dirt puffed up violently, indicating what I thought was some kind of displeasure on their part. Turned out they were taking root instead

After hearing the same translation draft 10x times, Zero asked for something more relevant to her interests

Sibling went back to the home country and unearthed this Soviet throwback of me and mama. Note grandpas butterfly collection in the backdrop

Discovered this tragic “Language Guide” in a stack of books at a bar