Born in
Voronezh, she graduated from the Voronezh Medical Institute and earned a degree in journalism from
Voronezh State University. She worked for six years as a doctor at Voronezh Regional Hospital. In 1995 she became a correspondent for
Radio Svoboda, and has lived and worked in
Moscow since the late nineties. She has contributed verse and literary reviews to
Znamya, the
New Literary Review,
Critical Mass,
Mitin Journal, and other publications. She has also translated the verses of
Serhiy Zhadan from
Ukrainian. She received the
Andrei Bely Prize in 1999 and the
Moscow Count Prize in 2003. Her poetry is characterized by its harsh outlook and precise language. During the early 2000s it came to be representative of the new Russian literary preoccupation with the theme of citizenship and the problems of personal historical memory and historical self-image. == Works ==