Varvara Babitskaya is a translator, literary critic, and editor. She has edited literary and cultural sections and published on the OpenSpace.ru portal, then Colta.ru, the Snob project, and The New Times magazine. She has written for the Afisha-Vozdukh website, the Gorky website, and others. As an editor and translator, she has published several books for NLO, Corpus, Strelka, One Book Publishing, and Überbau.