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Svetlana Satchkova

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Svetlana Satchkova is a NYC-based writer and journalist. Raised in Moscow, she published three novels in her native Russian and writes in English as her second language. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College, where she was a Truman Capote fellow, and is completing her first novel in English, a family drama that seeks to evoke the upside-down, post-truth climate of Putin’s Russia.

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