Svetlana Lavochkina is a writer of fiction and translator of poetry. She was born and educated in Ukraine and currently resides in Germany. Her work has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies in the US, including Witness, Drunken Boat, Eclectica, Mad Hatters’ Review, The Literary Review, Chamber Four Fiction Anthology. She was shortlisted for the Million Writers’ Award in 2010 and was a runner-up for the 2013 Paris Literary Prize, an international novella contest launched by Shakespeare&Co and the De Groot Foundation. Svetlana is co-founder and president of Leipzig Writers, a non-profit organization supporting international literary projects.