Joan Brooks

Joan Brooks is a writer, teacher, and translator based in Pittsburgh, PA. Having lived and worked much of her life in the former Soviet Union—primarily in St. Petersburg, Russia—Brooks maintains a bicultural practice that includes autoethnographic stories and essays, bilingual poetry, translations of leftist and queer-feminist Russophone poetry, experiments in therapeutic trans pornography, spiritual mathematics, pushkinistika, and rock operas. Brooks is currently reviving her teaching practice, preparing lectures on literature, philosophy, and culture for students in the former Soviet Union and across the world.