Maria Stepanova

Maria Stepanova:  (b. 1972) is a poet, essayist, and editor-in-chief of Colta.ru, an independent crowd-funded online daily.  Her opinion pieces on the current political and media landscape in Russia have been published in Russian, English, and German. Her novel Pamiati pamiati (In Memory of Memory)that blends memoir, documents, and essays into an epic narrative, came out in Russian in November 2017 and received the Big Book Prize in December 2018.  The book was published in German (Suhrkamp, 2018), Swedish, and Dutch and is forthcoming in English, French, Italian, Chinese and a number of other languages.