Tatiania Shcherbina Author

Tatiania Shcherbina was born in Moscow in 1954. Before 1999, she worked on Radio Liberty and four of her collections were published in samizdat. Since 1999, she has published six volumes of poetry and prose in Russia and two poetry collections in French, her adopted mother tongue. She has been a journalist and a reviewer for several Russian newspapers. In 2002, she took part in the Poetry International at London's Royal Festival Hall and in a UK tour by Russian women poets. Her poems appeared in a special Russian women's poetry issue of Modern Poetry in Translation, followed by a selection of her earlier poetry from Zephyr Press in the US. Life Without: Selected Poetry & Prose 1992-2003, translated by Sasha Dugdale, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2004.