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Oksana Vasyakina

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Oksana Vasyakina (Russian: Оксана Васякина; born December 18, 1989) is a Russian poet, artist, curator, and feminist activist.[1][2]

Biography

Born on December 18, 1989 in the city of Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk in a working-class family. She wrote her first poetic text at the age of 14.[3] In 2016 she graduated from the poetry department of the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. She studied in the workshop of Yevgeny Yuryevich Sidorov [Wikidata]. Participant of poetry festivals and slams in Novosibirsk, Perm, Vladimir, Moscow.[4] Her work has been published in the journal "air", newspaper "YSHSHOODNA", Internet media "Snob",[5] Colta.ru,[6] "TextOnly", and "Halftoning".

The first book of poems "Women's Prose" was published in 2016. In 2017, she wrote a cycle of poetic texts "Wind of Fury", published by the AST publishing house in 2019 (series "Female Voice").

References

  1. ^ "How Russia's Feminist Poets Are Changing What it Means to Protest". Time.
  2. ^ "Oksana Vasyakina". The Poetry Project.
  3. ^ "Московские поэты о времени, речи и насилии: Оксана Васякина | Литературный институт имени А.М. Горького". www.litinstitut.ru. Retrieved 2019-06-30.
  4. ^ "Оксана Васякина | Новая карта русской литературы". www.litkarta.ru. Retrieved 2019-06-30.
  5. ^ "Эти люди не знали моего отца" (in Russian). snob.ru. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  6. ^ "Два текста о насилии | Colta.ru". www.colta.ru. Retrieved 2019-07-01.