Oksana Vasyakina

[1][2] Oksana Vasyakina was born on December 18, 1989, in the city of Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk in a working-class family.

Vasyakina has participated in poetry festivals and slams in Novosibirsk, Perm, Vladimir and Moscow.

[5][6] In 2019 she was awarded with the prestigious Lyceum Pushkin Prize for her poetic cycle "When We Lived in Siberia".

Wind of Rage is a lengthy poem focusing on the experiences of a sexual abuse survivor and was originally distributed for free.

Steppe chronicles Oksana's relationship with her father, a truck driver who died of AIDS, while Rose is centered around the short life of her aunt Sventlana and deals with Oksana's coming to terms with her own mortality and mental illness.