War of the Beasts and the Animals

About the Author

Maria Stepanova is a poet, essayist, journalist and the author of ten poetry collections and three books of essays. She has received several Russian and international literary awards (including the prestigious Andrey Bely Prize and Joseph Brodsky Fellowship). Her documentary novel In Memory of Memory (2017) won Russia’s Big Book Award in 2018 and was published in English in Sasha Dugdale’s translation by New Directions in the US and by Fitzcarraldo in the UK in 2021. Sasha Dugdale’s English translation of a selection of her poetry, War of the Beasts and the Animals, also appeared in 2021, from Bloodaxe.