Denis Besnosov, born in Moscow in 1988, is a literary critic and poet. A translator from English and Spanish, he has translated to Russian the works of David Gascoyne, Mark Ford, Hugh Sykes Davies, Charles Simic, Sean O'Brien, Liz Berry, Philip Gross, Fernando Arrabal and Virgilio Piñera. Traces of Habitation (2023) is his first novel.
Sergey Davydov, born in 1992 in Russia, is a writer and playwright. His plays were staged in Moscow, Berlin, London, San Francisco and Belgrade theaters. Artist Protection Fund Fellow in 2024 and recipient of the Gefangenes Wort Scholarship, Davydov is currently based in Germany.
Asya Demishkevich, born in 1988 in Divnogorsk, Russia, is a writer. Her debut novel Where My Kingdom Is was awarded Best Manuscript Award 2021, her novel One little boy, two little boys was longlisted for the Lyceum Literary Award, and shortlisted for the Lubimovka Independent Theater contest.
Egana Djabbarova, born in 1992 into an Azerbaijani family in Yekaterinburg, Russia, is a poet, essayist, and scholar. Having been forced to flee Russia in 2024 because of her LGBTQ activism and opposition to the war in Ukraine, she lives in Hamburg, Germany. Her debut novel My Dreadful Body (No Kidding Press, 2023) was translated into ten languages.
Masha Gavrilova, born in 1998, is a Russian writer of Udmurt and Tadjik origins. Her work appeared in several literary magazines and short story collections. She is the organizer of Tears of the Authoress Festival for Women’s Writing. Masha is currently based in Paris.
Natalya Klucharyova, born in 1981 in Russia, is a writer and playwright. Her debut novel Russia: Third-Class Carriage was translated into nine languages.
Marina Kochan, born in 1989 in Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic, is a writer. In November 2022, she launched What I Know About My Dad: an online anthology project that explores the figure of the father in the post-Soviet space.
tony lashden, born in 1994 in Belarus, is a writer, human rights advocate, and co-organizer of the Belarusian Feminist Archive Rasciajenne (Extensions) and the corresponding feminist writing lab for women and gender non-conforming individuals. Member of the Belarusian PEN centre, tony is the winner of the Swedish Institute VISBY Scholarship 2016, European Commission Eastern Partnership Fellowship 2021, Institut für Europäische Politik Fellowship 2022, Susan Treadwell Fellowship at Ariadne Networks of Human Rights Funders 2024. tony is currently based in Sweden.
Sveta Lukyanova is a writer, playwright, musician and co-founder of writing courses and community for women WLAG Russia. She lives in Kazan, Russia with her girlfriend and a toy poodle Virginia Woof.
Larissa Muraveva is a writer and literary scholar. PhD in literary studies, her research focuses on comparative literature, narratology, and autobiography. She is the author of Autofiction: Narrating the Sensitive (De Gruyter, 2026). The Time of Swans is her first novel.
Evgenia Nekrasova, born in 1985 in Russia, is a writer and co-founder of the Moscow School of Modern Literary Practices. She is the author of several novels and short story collections. Her works have been selected for several national literary awards and were awarded the NOS Award and the Lyceum Literary Award. Evgenia’s writing appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Offing, Words Without Borders and khōréō.
Daria Serenko, born in 1993, is a Russian writer, poet, political activist and co-founder of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance (FAR), formed in protest of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and awarded the Aachen Peace Prize in 2023. In February 2022, Daria was detained for 15 days for a social media post. She was released from jail on February 24, 2022, and has since left Russia. In 2023 Serenko was named one of the BBC 100 Women. Serenko’s writing appeared in The New York Review, The Atlantic, N+1, e-flux and The New Statesman.
Oxana Timofeeva, born in Siberia in 1978, is a philosopher, researcher at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK), Senior Associate at the Institute for Global Reconstitution (IGRec) and member of the artistic collective Chto Delat (What is to be done). Her books include Freud’s Beasty Boys: Sex, Violence, and Masculinity (Matthes & Seitz Berlin; Polity, 2025), Solar Politics (Polity, 2022), History of Animals (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), Introduction to the Erotic Philosophy of Georges Bataille (New Literary Observer, 2009), and Labor Theory of the Soul (Lexington Books, forthcoming). Oxana is based in Germany.