Artist Bio: Irina Tall Novikova

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Irina Tall Novikova is an artist, graphic artist, and illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor's degree in design.

Her first personal exhibition, "My Soul Is Like a Wild Hawk" (2002) was held in the museum of Maxim Bagdanovich. In her works, she raises themes of ecology, and in 2005, she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster, drawing from anti-war topics. The first big series she drew was "The Red Book," dedicated to rare and endangered species of animals and birds. Irinia also writes fairy tales and poems, and illustrates short stories. Her work has been published in Gupsophila, Harpy Hybrid Review, Little Literary Living Room, among others. In 2022, her short story was included in the collection, "The 50 Best Short Stories," and her poem was published in "The Wonders of Winter" poetry collection.