Besieged Leningrad: Aesthetic Responses to Urban Disaster

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Polina Barskova is a poet, scholar, & author of 12 collections of poems & two books of prose in Russian. She has also authored a monograph Besieged Leningrad: Aesthetic Responses to Urban Disaster (2017) & edited three scholarly volumes. Her collection of creative nonfiction, Living Pictures, received the Andrei Bely Prize in 2015, was published in German with Suhrkamp Verlag, & is forthcoming in English with New York Review Books. She edited the Leningrad Siege poetry anthology Written in the Dark (Ugly Duckling Presse) & has four collections of poetry published in English translation: This Lamentable City (Tupelo Press), The Zoo in Winter (Melville House), Relocations (Zephyr Press), & Air Raid (forthcoming with Ugly Duckling Presse). She has taught at Hampshire College, Amherst College, & Smith College. Beginning in 2021, she will be teaching Russian literature at the University of California, Berkeley.