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Aigerim Tazhi Айгерим Тажи (Kazakhstan) is the author of the award-winning volumes of poetry БОГ-О-СЛОВ [THEO-LOG-IAN, or GOD O’WORDS] (Musaget, 2004) and Бумажная кожа / Paper-Thin Skin, published in a bilingual edition by Zephyr Press (2019). The book received positive reviews from international critics and was included in WLT’s 2019 list of seventy-five notable translations as well as Meduza’s list of the Year’s Top Books. Tazhi has been awarded international literary prizes, including the Literary Steps Prize, Shabyt, and shortlisted for others, such as the Debut Prize and the Voloshin Prize. Her poems have been widely published in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas and translated into many languages, including English, French, Dutch, German, Polish, Arabic, and others. Tazhi was featured at the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam in 2022 and was a writing fellow in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (IWP) in 2023. She is the author of several projects at the crossroads of poetry and other forms of art.