Tania Rodionova

Tania Rodionova was born in 1990 in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. She is a translator, poet and cultural manager. In 2013, she initiated the VERBatsiya translation group. During 2016–2021, she 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.

 

Currently Tania Rodionova is a Director of the TRANSLATORIUM Literary and Translation Festival, which she co-founded with her colleagues in 2017. Since 2022, she is the Head of the same-name NGO. In 2019 and 2022, she was a curator of the short-term collective residencies for translators. In 2023, she founded the BAZHAN residency in Kamianets-Podilskyi for poets and translators and became its curator.

 

Participant of the Kharkiv Residency Slovo, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, the SDK Residency (Warsaw) and the Literary Residency in Gdansk.

 

Photo by Yaroslav Futymskyi