Anna Aksenova is a Russian writer, poet, translator, and educator currently based in New York. She is a lecturer in the Free Creative Writing Program at the Free University, an international online institution in exile. She earned a Ph.D. in Foreign Languages from Moscow Pedagogical State University and was a Fulbright Graduate Student Researcher at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in Writer’s Block Magazine, Resistance and Oppositional Arts Review, Teachers & Writers Magazine, and other publications. Her debut autofiction novel, Marlena, Come Back Home, was longlisted for the Freedom Letters Book Award in 2026. She currently serves as editor of the English-language edition of Mountains Magazine.