Author Larissa Shmailo
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Larissa Shmailo’s new novel is Sly Bang (2018); her first novel is Patient Women (2015). Her poetry collections are Medusa’s Country (2016), #specialcharacters (2015), In Paran (2009), the chapbook A Cure for Suicide (2006), and the e-book Fib Sequence (2011). Her poetry albums are The No-Net World and Exorcism, for which she won the New Century Best Spoken Word Album award. Shmailo’s work has appeared in over 25 anthologies, including Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Penguin Random House), Words for the Wedding (Penguin), and Contemporary Russian Poetry (Dalkey). Shmailo is the original English-language translator of the first Futurist opera Victory over the Sun by Alexei Kruchenych; she also edited the anthologies Twenty-first Century Russian Poetry and From Pushkin to Pussy Riot: Russian Political Poetry and Prose. She has recently been nominated for a Best of the Net Internet writing award in creation nonfiction.
