Elena Fanailova

She worked for six years as a doctor at Voronezh Regional Hospital.

In 1995 she became a correspondent for Radio Svoboda, and has lived and worked in Moscow since the late nineties.

She has contributed verse and literary reviews to Znamya, the New Literary Review, Critical Mass, Mitin Journal, and other publications.

Her poetry is characterized by its harsh outlook and precise language.

During the early 2000s it came to be representative of the new Russian literary preoccupation with the theme of citizenship and the problems of personal historical memory and historical self-image.