Larissa Shmailo

Larissa Shmailo is the author of two novels and six poetry collections, most recently Dora/Lora, about the role of Ukrainian kapos in the Holocaust. Her poetry album Exorcism won the New Century best spoken word album award. Larissa's work has appeared in over 30 anthologies, including Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Penguin Random House), Words for the Wedding (Penguin), and Contemporary Russian Poetry (Dalkey). Larissa is the original English-language translator of the first Futurist opera, Victory over the Sun, performed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Garage Museum of Moscow, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and theaters and universities worldwide. Larissa also edited the anthology Twenty-first Century Russian Poetry.  She has been teaching the Writing Resilience workshop for people affected by trauma, addiction, and/or mental illness for three years; new this year is her Formal Poetry workshop. Larissa also provides one-on-one writing coaching. Larissa attributes her recovery from mental illness to the practice and communities of writing.

See more about Larissa at larissashmailo.com and Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larissa_Shmailo