MARIA STEPANOVA is an award-winning poet, novelist, essayist, and journalist. She is the author of many books, including the poetry collection Holy Winter 20/21 and the acclaimed novel In Memory of Memory, both translated into English by Sasha Dugdale. In Memory of Memory won Russia’s Bolshaya Kniga Award andthe NOS Prize in 2018 and was later awarded the Berman Literature Prize in 2023. It was also nominated for several other awards, including the International Booker Prize, the Dublin Literary Award, the National Book Award for Translated Literature, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Stepanova has received numerous international literary awards, including the prestigious Andrey Bely Prize and Joseph Brodsky Fellowship. She founded and served as Editor-in-Chiefof the independent, crowdsourced online journal Colta.ru, which engaged with the cultural, social, and political reality of contemporary Russia until the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, when all dissenting media in Russia were forced to shut down. As a prominent critic of Putin’s regime, she had to leave Russia and is now living in exile in Germany.

SASHA DUGDALE is a UK-based poet and translator. Her sixth book of poetry, The Strongbox, was published in 2024. Dugdale’s translation of Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory was a finalist for the International Booker Prize and won the MLA Lois Roth Award. She has translated two of Stepanova’s poetry collections, including HolyWinter 20/21 and War of the Beasts and the Animals, as well as work by several other Russian-language women poets, including Elena Shvarts and Marina Tsvetaeva.

The Disappearing Act

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