Stanislav Snytko is a writer, literary critic, and editor born in 1989 in Leningrad, USSR, and living in Berkeley, California. Author of four Russian-language collections of prose poetry / experimental fiction (The Destruction of the Name and Acetone Kings (both 2014), White Brush (2017), Finnish Nights (2021)) and a novel, A History of Prose in Descriptions of the Earth (2023). Editor at Nosorog, a magazine and small press (since 2016). Short-listed for the Andrei Belyi Award (for Prose — in 2013 and 2015), the Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Award for Emerging Poets (2015), and the NOS Award for New Literature (2017). His work has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Slovak, Latvian — and English (“Land of Snows,” trans. Philippa Mullins, Denver Quarterly 53.4, 2019).
