Nastya Drapkina

Anastasia Drapkina is originally from Kherson, Ukraine. She is multilingual. She fell in love with literature and languages thanks to books in her Ukrainian great-grandmother's house: a volume of Tyutchev made such a strong impression that she started writing poetry herself. When she grew up, she majored in Russian studies at Kyiv University. Then, full-scale war came to Ukraine. Nastya talks about the abolition of culture and language, responsibility, and coming to terms with oneself in the...