She was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1973 and grew up in New York City. Her original poetry and translations from Russian have appeared in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, 6x6, Aufgabe, Poets and Poems, Octopus, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is an editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse. She is the author of a chapbook, The Tides (Octopus Books, 2007)