"We pride ourselves on editing and on working with our authors to develop their pieces. Which makes us slow! But also--I believe--worth the while." As the contributor to the slowness, very much agree. Love working with you, @olgaz.bsky.social !

Back then, Tatsiana had just completed her novel ab memory & digital immortality that became a wonderful Смерти.net--another as of yet untranslated novel worthy of attention! Today, we're running an excerpt from Satchkova's 2026 Eng-language debut. Check it out! puncturedlines.com/2026/06/17/a...

Last but not least for today, from the year 2020, is a translation of Svetlana Satchkova's interview with Tatsiana Zamirovskaya that we titled “Just because Belarusians write in Russian doesn’t mean they’re a part of Russian culture.” puncturedlines.com/2020/08/07/j...

Hilah Kohen's Twitter thread to a link of resources on Blackness, Racism, and Russian and Eurasian Studies. You can still find it on X, but PL's story provides a bit more context: puncturedlines.com/2020/07/21/r...

-- @yelenafurman.bsky.social 's classic Book Love post about Julia Voznesenskaya's The Women's Decameron -- speaking of great untranslated books -- really, English language translation publishers, take note!! puncturedlines.com/2020/07/15/b...

-- My piece on Carolyn Gold Heilbrun's monograph about Constance Garnett that keeps coming up for me for various good and bad readsons: puncturedlines.com/2020/07/07/c...

Some fun highlights from our early days: -- Hilah Kohen's thread on queer russophone sci fi anthology from Bishkek (that she later developed into a podcast for Meduza!) puncturedlines.com/2020/02/04/h...

We pride ourselves on editing and on working with our authors to develop their pieces. Which makes us slow! But also--I believe--worth the while. I learned a ton through working on these pieces. Take a look at our full story archives puncturedlines.com/story-archiv...

This summer marks 7 years since @yelenafurman.bsky.social and I started @puncturedlines.bsky.social, a feminist blog on literatures of the former Soviet Union and diaspora. We've published 219 posts on Word Press and have worked with at least 89 authors (according to my imperfect files).

Today on @puncturedlines.bsky.social an excerpt from Svetlana Satchkova's English-language debut, The Undead: A Novel of Modern Russia. Thank you to @olgaz.bsky.social for this piece on the blog. puncturedlines.com/2026/06/17/a...

Read an excerpt from Svetlana Satchkova’s English-language debut, THE UNDEAD: A Novel of Modern Russia, published earlier this year by @melvillehouse.bsky.social. A story of an aspiring Moscow filmmaker, who makes an arthouse horror movie and then finds herself arrested and prosecuted.

Natalie Oceanheart's LIFE BEYOND FEAR: A UKRAINIAN WOMAN'S MEMOIR is written by a survivor as well as a trained psychologist who aims to help people by sharing her story. Read @katyacengel.bsky.social's interview with Oceanheart on Punctured Lines. Link below. #Ukraine #memoir #survivor #book

To get a sense of what we do, come to the fundraiser we're hosting on June 12 to benefit Noisebridge, a makerspace in the Mission that has been hosting our workshop--for free!--for the past four years. You will hear some of our writers read their work and meet some hackers!! 7/7

San Francisco Writers Workshop is celebrating our 80th anniversary this year. According to lore, the workshop was started by two female poets in 1946 in the aftermath of WWII, and has been meeting every Tuesday night somewhere in San Francisco ever since. 1/7

Yes, I've written about her for @puncturedlines.bsky.social . Honestly the more I read Edward 's letters, the more I feel that between him and her we have the source for much of modern British AND Russian lit. Her impact is huge. puncturedlines.com/2020/07/07/c...

the assigned writer's piece. The winning hacker will receive a prize of dubious value! The event will also feature a raffle!! refreshments!! opportunities to mingle!! and to celebrate the 80th anniversary of SFWW started by female poets in the aftermath of WWII, in 1946. 4/4

This year, we're collaborating with the hackers. We've asked several glorious authors to share their literary work with a hacker, who will respond with a app/gadget/doohickey inspired by the writing. Audience members (you!!) will vote for the device that best complements... 3/4

Since 2022, @noisebridge has been providing San Francisco Writers Workshop a welcoming place to meet free of charge. We would love to give back as much as possible to ensure Noisebridge's long-term survival in San Francisco's storied Mission District. 2/4

SF/Bay Area writers and hackers: Come out on June 12 to celebrate our community and raise funds for everyone's favorite local makerspace: Noisebridge! With Samantha Shields, Aaron Lee, Savannah Mandella, Lalita Abhyankar, John "Jaune" Hanig, and Jiyoung Han! #bookish #events 1/4

Very glad @univnebpress.bsky.social asked me to read this memoir by Natalie Oceanheart on the war in Ukraine. Also glad I met @olgaz.bsky.social and @yelenafurman.bsky.social at a reading on post Soviet writers thanks to Sasha Vasilyuk. puncturedlines.com/2026/05/20/w...

Event details and RSVP!! (Globus has limited seating, so do make sure to reserve your space.) www.globusbooks.com/pages/events...

A zombie Lenin arises from the mausoleum and aims to seize control of the Kremlin? That's the setup of a movie that Maya, the protagonist of Svetlana Satchkova's novel THE UNDEAD manages to get produced in Moscow in 2017. Join me and @sashavasilyuk.bsky.social in quzzing the author next week!

Writer’s block? You’re in luck ✍️✨ Today, we're featuring Olga Zilborbourg, author of LIKE WATER. Purchase LIKE WATER with the link in our bio: www.wtawpress.org/product-page...

Natalya Sukhonos interviewed by Valerie Bandura on poetry, being an immigrant, Ukraine, and more.

That's not a quote from Nabokov, but from Natalya Sukhonos' interview with Valerie Bandura on @puncturedlines.bsky.social . Thank you, @olgaz.bsky.social for getting this on the blog.

"What’s at stake in my work is a reckoning with the ways in which, through the prisms of memory, art can be a way to confront the often traumatic losses of the past — both an individual’s past and the past of a nation." puncturedlines.com/2026/04/29/p...

Natalya Sukhonos's third collection of poems, SUNLIGHT TRAPPED IN STONE (@greenwriterspress.bsky.social) is the subject of her conversation with fellow immigrant poet from Odesa, Ukraine @valeriebandura.bsky.social. Read on PuncturedLines.com.

"Taking out some of the hyphens means disconnecting from who I am." @vladateper.bsky.social beautiful and to many of us highly relatable essay on Mărțișor, Moldova, complicated identities, and our ties to the places we come from after we've left them. www.pangyrus.com/essay-memoir...

A delight to have Egana Djabbarova in the U.S. to present MY DREADFUL BODY, translated @lizoksbooks.bsky.social. Thank you The Harriman Institute at Columbia, U of Pennsylvania, @thenewschool.bsky.social, Amherst College + @rhondakg.bsky.social for hosting. newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...

We are farther from Office Romance (1977) than Novoseltsev was from Pasternak's poem "Loving some people is a heavy cross" (1931) when he tried to pass it off as his own.

Happy pub date to BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS 2026 from @deepvellum.bsky.social. I’m very proud to have a translation in this volume, a poem by a Kyiv-based poet Olga Bragina, first published in @consequencef.bsky.social. Buy the book: store.deepvellum.org/products/bes... #booksky #translation

Happy to report that the recording of Dr Michael Marsh-Soloway's recent talk - “When Earthly Minds Contemplate Infinity” - is now available on our YouTube channel! Check it out: bloggerskaramazov.com/speaker-seri...

In the Winter 2025 issue of #SlavicReview, Paolo Sartori writes, "Slavic Settlers and Conversion to Islam in Russian Central Asia," as part of the Cluster: Towards a History of Russian Colonialism. Read now on Cambridge Core: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Proud to have my translation of a poem by Olga Bragina, first published in Consequence Forum, in this volume.

Order it here: store.deepvellum.org/products/bes...

Best Literary Translations 2026, guest edited by US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, is available now!

This is such an exciting prospect. I really enjoyed reading Djabbarova and am very happy anglophone readers will get to know her work in Lisa’s translations.

that the Russian version has an afterword that mentions Helene Cixous and Luce Irigraray, two French feminist theorists who originated writing the body and which were our first readings in the course. Admittedly, I'm biased, but it's also one of the best novels I've read in a long time.

I was teaching it last quarter, as always in his memory, at the same time as Olga, Lisa, and I started talking about this extraordinary book. I read it in Russian and the publisher kindly sent me Lisa's English translation, which I passed around to my students, while also telling them 3/

As some of you know, my dissertation was on writing the body in the works of Russian women writers and I have been teaching this course, in various iterations, even before I'd finished, thanks to Michael Heim going to bat to get this class onto the Slavic department schedule. 2/

Today is the publication day of the English translation of Egana Djabbarova's novel My Dreadful Body, translated by @lizoksbooks.bsky.social; massive thanks to @olgaz.bsky.social for putting an excerpt on Punctured Lines. 1/

I love this book! The offer to translate My Dreadful Body for New Vessel has always felt like a wonderful gift (especially since it came during the holiday season!), and I'm glad that gift is now making its way into the world to other readers. Thank you for being part of that effort Punctured Lines!

Thank you very much to Punctured Lines for running this excerpt from my translation of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body! I'm happy to add that today's our publication day, thanks to @newvesselpress.bsky.social!

Reading this now, needed more

Wonderful book

We’re celebrating today the arrival of an eagerly anticipated novel by Egana Djabbarova that portrays the life of a young woman from a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia. Read an excerpt on Punctured Lines and buy the book from @newvesselpress.bsky.social puncturedlines.com/2026/04/07/t...

One fun coincidence about this event is that all three authors featured here were students of Svetlana Boym, a cultural theorist most famous for her book THE FUTURE OF NOSTALGIA. When we talk about memory in relationship to culture and immigration, we talk in part about her work.

Coming up in Oakland.

Join us tomorrow in Baltimore! It's going to be an incredible night.

Today! I'll be at UCLA's writing workshop, but if you're in Baltimore, you should be here. Listen to phenomenal writers, like @olgaz.bsky.social, @vladateper.bsky.social, et al. and support Ukraine. (Registration link in the event description.)