Polina Barskova was born in 1976 in Leningrad and lives in the United States of America since 1999, currently residing in Amherst. She authored 9 books of poetry and the collection of short prose awarded with Andrei Bely Prize in 2015; she also translates contemporary poetry from English and Ukrainian. Barskova has won the first and only All-Soviet Young Poets' Competition in 1991 and “Tenyota” competition for Russian literature in the Net in 1998, she was also awarded with Moscow en route (“Moskva–tranzit”) prize in 2005.
Polina Barskova was born in 1976 in Leningrad and lives in the United States of America since 1999, currently residing in Amherst. She authored 9 books of poetry and the collection of short prose awarded with Andrei Bely Prize in 2015; she also translates contemporary poetry from English and Ukrainian. Barskova has won the first and only All-Soviet Young Poets' Competition in 1991 and “Tenyota” competition for Russian literature in the Net in 1998, she was also awarded with Moscow en route (“Moskva–tranzit”) prize in 2005.