Taisia Kitaiskaia (pronunciation below) was born in the Soviet Union and raised in the United States. She is the author of THE NIGHTGOWN AND OTHER POEMS (Deep Vellum, 2020); LITERARY WITCHES (Hachette/Seal, 2017), a collaboration with artist Katy Horan celebrating magical women writers and an NPR Best Book of 2017; a divination deck, THE LITERARY WITCHES ORACLE (Clarkson Potter, 2019); and two books of advice from the witch of Slavic folklore, ASK BABA YAGA: OTHERWORLDLY ADVICE FOR EVERYDAY TROUBLES (Andrews McMeel, 2017) and its follow-up, POETIC REMEDIES FOR TROUBLED TIMES: FROM ASK BABA YAGA (Andrews McMeel, 2020). She has received fellowships from Yaddo and the James A. Michener Center for Writers, and her fiction and poetry have been published in journals such as Virginia Quarterly Review, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review of Books, StoryQuarterly, Fence, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Pleiades, and Guernica. She has written for The Hairpin, Electric Literature, Jezebel, and Bitch Media. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, the writer Fernando A. Flores.

Email: Taisia.Kitaiskaia@gmail.com

Agent: Emma Patterson at Brandt & Hochman

For queries about Ask Baba Yaga or Literary Witches, please contact Adriann Ranta Zurhellen

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