Oksana Vasyakina is a poet, feminist activist, artist, and curator. She was born in 1989 in Ust-Ilimsk (Irkutsk Oblast, Russia) and graduated from The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute and School of Performance (PYRFYR). Her debut book Women’s prose was shortlisted for The Andrei Bely Prize in 2016. Some texts from the presented selection were included in The Arcady Dragomoshchenko Prize shortlist in 2016. She has been the recipient of The Moskovskij Schet Prize and Liceum Prize. Her poems have been translated into Italian, English and Estonian. She lives in Moscow.