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Svetlana Satchkova

Svetlana Satchkova is a Russian-born journalist and novelist who immigrated to the United States in 2016. She covers culture and politics, with bylines in The Rumpus, Newsweek, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Independent, and others. Currently a research fellow at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU, she holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn. Satchkova has published three novels in Russian; The Undead: A Novel of Modern Russia is her English-language debut.