Not from the other side of the earth

A scientist, constantly inclined to play, a translator, carefully and eagerly breaking the boundaries of linguistic registers, a poet, constantly changing and unwilling to stop in her transformations, Elena Mikhailik presents to the reader a world full of strange, scary, and disturbing things. It is a world of phantasmagoric captivating and tormenting tales of wanderings and at the same time a folklore expedition, the goal of which is to study such scary tales, but which itself turned out to be in the process of wandering and possibly delusion. Elena Mikhailik was born in Odessa, graduated from the philological faculty of OGU. Since 1993, she has been living in Sydney, teaching at the University of New South Wales. Doctor of Philosophy. Poems and articles have been published in the anthology "Liberated Ulysses", the magazines "Arion", "Air", "Children of Ra", "New World", "New Literary Review". Andrei Bely Prize in the category "Humanitarian Research" (2019) for a monograph dedicated to the work of Varlam Shalamov. Author of three books of poetry: "Neither Sleep nor Cloud" (Argo-Risk, 2008), "Expedition" (Literature without Borders, 2019), "The Fish Said 'Yes'" (Cabinet Scientist, 2021).