
Tania Rodionova
Co-founder and Director of the Festival, Curator of the BAZHAN residency
Translator, poet, cultural manager, and initiator of the VERBatsiya translation group. Worked as part of the curatorial team of the International Book Arsenal Festival, the press agent of the Intermezzo Short Story Festival and the Mama Africa Festival of African Culture, and the coordinator of the Cultour.Ua Literature Tour Project. Also worked as an organizer of several art events in Khmelnytskyi. Translated for the online media post impreza, Mystetskyi Arsenal, the Kyiv Biennial, the Lviv Book Forum, the Commons: Journal of Social Criticism, and the Authors’ Reading Month in Lviv. Translated such authors as Timothy Snyder, Dorothee Richter, Pascal Gielen, and Maksym Eristavi, as well as the poetry by Anna Halberstadt, the American beatniks, and the Orbita Text Group. She is also a translator of Ukrainian contemporary poetry into English. As a poet and translator, she has participated in several Ukrainian and foreign literary residencies, such as the Kharkiv Residency Slovo, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, the SDK Residency (Warsaw), and the Literary Residency in Gdansk.