Julia Nemirovskaya

Julia Nemirovskaya is a Russian poet and prose writer who was born, raised, and educated in Moscow. She immigrated to the United States in 1991 and teaches Russian literature and culture at the University of Oregon. She has published three collections of poems – Moia knizhechka (My Little Book, 1998), Vtoraia knizhechka (Second Little Book, 2014), and Slyshnee (More audible, 2021) – as well as the novel Lis (2017). English translations of her poems have appeared in Washington Square Review, Exchanges, Asymptote, and other journals.

  • A Hope Abandoned: Navalny’s Death in Twenty Poems

    This month’s eloquent short essay, “Hope Abandoned” by the Russian expatriate poet, essayist, and anthologist Julia Nemirovskaya, introduces the homage…

    Plume Issue #161 January 2025
  • Two Poems by Julia Nemirovskaya translated from Russian by Boris Dralyuk

    The thought that we might