Contemporary Bestiary (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780991600908)

Vasilina Orlova was born in the village of Dunnai in the Russian Far East in 1979. She has lived in Vladivostok, Moscow, and London, and is now based in Austin, United States. She holds a PhD in Philosophy and is the author of seven novels in Russian-among them "The Voice of Fine Stillness", "The Wilderness", and "The Supper of a Praying Mantis". She has also published several books of prose and poetry, including "Yesterday", "The Wilderness", and "Quartet". She is the recipient of several Russian literary awards and is a laureate of the Anton Delvig Prize for the poetry book "Barefoot" (2008). She has written in English since 2012, her first publication in the language being in "Di-Vêrsé-City", the Austin International Poetry Festival anthology. Her poetry and prose has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, and Russian.