Dmitry Golynko

Dmitry Golynko, born in 1969 in Leningrad, was one of the most innovative poets in contemporary Russia, employing his poetry to examine the relationship between post-Soviet language, culture, and society. The author of three books of poems—Homo Scribens, Directory, and Concrete Doves—Golynko was nominated for the Andrey Bely Prize. His poetry has been translated into several European languages. In his parallel career as a cultural critic, he defended a pioneering PhD dissertation on the Russian post-avant-garde and regularly published essays on contemporary art and cinema. After a teaching stint in South Korea and a fellowship at the Literarischer Colloqium Berlin, he lived in Saint Petersburg.