Svetlana was born and raised in Eastern Ukraine, where the cities steam with important factories, where the daily bun in the school canteen is called no less than "Romantica".
A decade ago, she moved to Eastern Germany, where Leipzig teems with parks and stucco nymphs call from the pink façades. Svetlana teaches English at Leipzig Waldorf School, writes fiction and translates Ukrainian and Russian poetry into English. She considers herself a humble servant of literary globalisation, diligently lugging her Ukrainian word flour sack onto the English world mill.
Svetlana is delighted to be among LE Writers. That her eternal dream to share and perform her work at literary concerts should come true exactly where she lives, which is neither UK nor the US nor even AUS, never stops to amaze her. She is grateful to have been part of the first (and thoroughly successful) purely English Book Fair reading "The Closest East to the Heart". The preparation for the next event, "The Embassy of Love", a literary celebration of spring, is well on its way - with kindred spirits.
Meanwhile, Svetlana's short stories and poetry translations were published or are forthcoming in Witness, Drunken Boat, Chamber Four Fiction Anthology, The Literary Review, Eclectica (shortlisted for Million Writers' Award 2010) and In Our Words Anthology. This year, she was on the panel of judges of the Million Writers Award 2011 and co-edited an international generational anthology "A Long and Winding Road". Svetlana is currently working on her first novel.
