Oksana Vasyakina

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. 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.
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