Anastasiya Osipova

Anastasiya Osipova received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from NYU in 2017. She is currently completing her first book, entitled Survival and Mobilization: The Genre Memory of Soviet Prison Writing, that explores inter-generational aesthetic influence among political prisoners from 1920s to 2020s. 

In addition to her academic work, she is active as a writer, translator, and publisher of contemporary art and poetry in Russia and Ukraine. In 2013 she co-founded Cicada Press, an imprint committed to publishing formally experimental Eastern European writing. She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine.