Galina Rymbu was born in 1990 in the city of Omsk (Siberia, Russia) and lives in Lviv, Ukraine. She edited F-Pis’mo, an online magazine for feminist literature and theory, as well as Gryoza, a website for contemporary poetry. She is the co-founder of the Arkady Dragomoshchenko Prize for emerging Russian-language poets. She has published three books of poems in Russian: Moving Space of the Revolution (Peredvizhnoe prostranstvo perevorota, 2014), Time of the Earth (Vremia zemli, 2018), and Life in Space (Zhizn’ v prostranstve, 2018). Her essays on cinema, literature, and sexuality have appeared in Séance, Colta, Your Art, and other journals. English translations of her work have appeared in numerous journals, and a translation of Life in Space by Joan Brooks and others was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2020. Her poetry has been translated into thirteen languages, and stand-alone collections of her work have been published in Latvian, Dutch, Swedish, English, and Romanian.
Galina Rymbu
Guest Speaker
