Tania Skarynkina Author

Tania Skarynkina, poet and essayist, was born in 1969 in Smarhon, Belarus. During her life, she worked as a postwoman, journalist and illustrator. She writes poetry in Russian and essays in Belarusian. A Large Czeslaw Milosz with a Dash of Elvis Presley was originally published in 2015 and includes recollections of her childhood in Smarhon interwoven with thoughts on poets, philosophers and world literature as a whole.