Tatyana Volskaya is a poet, essayist, and author of 17 collections of poems, including “Arrow,” “Cicada” (London, 2006), “Trostdroppar,” (Stockholm, 2009), “The Corner of Nevsky and Khreshchatyk” (Kyiv, “Rainbow,” 2015), “In Light Fire,” “Winged Orderly,” “The Sleeper Doesn’t Sleep” (Kyiv, “Drukarsky Dvor,” 2020), “Stand with Me” (Saint Petersburg, “Palmira,” 2022), “My Ukrainian Conscience” (Kyiv, “Rainbow,” 2022), “Deserters of the Empire” (“Book of Sefer,” Israel, 2023), “You Will Live to See It” (Freedom Letters, 2024), “In the City of November. Selected 2025-2025” (Virgola Press, 2025)
The author of two books of prose – “Almost Doesn’t Hurt” and “The Effect of Absence. From the Georgian Notebook”
His poems have been translated into English, German, Swedish, Dutch, French, Finnish, Italian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, and Japanese. He is a recipient of the Pushkin Scholarship (Germany, 1999), the Zvezda magazine award (2002), the All-Russian "Lost Tram" competition (2019), and other awards. He is also a recipient of the Moscow Account award (2022).
Works for Radio Liberty/Free Europe, teaches at the Free University, and runs a poetry workshop there.
In Russia, Tatyana Volskaya was declared a foreign agent back in 2021, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was declared an undesirable organization, with cooperation with it punishable by imprisonment under Russian law.
Since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Tatyana Volskaya has spoken out against the war; she has been living in Georgia since April 22.