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Larissa Shmailo (born 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an American poet, translator, novelist, editor, and critic.[1][2] She is known for her literary translations from Russian to English, particularly her translation of Victory over the Sun[3] and the anthology Twenty-First Century Russian Poetry.[4]
Shmailo is an experimentalist and a neoformalist, as well as a spoken word artist.[5] She translated the first Futurist opera, Victory over the Sun, at the age of twenty-two, but began her literary career in earnest in 1993 in New York City's open mike poetry scene as curator of the reading series Sliding Scale Poetry. She went on from there to win recognition as a poet, translator, novelist, anthologist, editor, and critic in Russia, India, and across the United States.
- ^ "In Conversation with Poet, Larissa Shmailo". Cafedissensusblog.com. 26 June 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ Melanson, Nicole (9 March 2015). "Meet Larissa Shmailo". Wordmothers.com. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ "Russia's Cubo-Futurists Created a Startling 'Opera'". NYTimes.com. 20 November 1983. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- ^ "Fifty Russian poets unveiled in online anthology". rbth.com. 20 July 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- ^ Campanioni, Chris. "Versions and (Per)Versions or: Get Rich or Die Tryin'". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 5 January 2019.