Veiled from Solitude by the Atlantic

Anzhelina Polonskaya was born in Malakhovka, a small town near Moscow. Since 1998 she has been a member of the Moscow Union of Writers, and in 2003 Polonskaya became a member of the Russian PEN Center. In 2004 her book A Voice appeared in the acclaimed Writings from an Unbound Europe series at Northwestern University Press. The book was shortlisted for the 2005 Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation and for the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (aatseel) prize for literature in translation. Her work has appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, International Poetry Review, Atlantica, Poetry Review, Stand Magazine, and Descant

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