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Julia Idlis Julia Idlis was born in 1981 in Kaliningrad (former Koenigsberg). When she was young her family moved to Moscow, where she now lives. She received a B.A. in philology from Moscow State University. She has stayed at MSU to work on her Ph.D. Her candidate thesis deals with screenplay adaptations of literary works by Harold Pinter. She is also a journalist working for polit.ru, with a range of publications on topics such as literature, film, and fashion. She has published two collections of poems: Fairy tales for… (St. Petersburg: A.B.K., 2003) and Air, Water (Moscow: ARGO-RISK, 2005); her third collection is due out at the end of 2006. Peter Golub’s translation of Julia Idlis’ “(“someone walks on the parquet”)” appears in Caketrain Issue 04. |
Caketrain is a literary journal and press based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our interest is in bringing you, reader, the very best in contemporary creative writing, full stop. Our goals are for each issue of our journal to submerge you in a birthing tank for gelatinous language monsters, young masses of tentacular foci undulating as directed (in all, at once) by our eclectic stable of contributors; for each new book we publish to seduce and ensnare you, sometimes intangibly, always undeniably; and for you, reader, to be able to draw at least one passage from our banks that prods your mind with such precision and power that it feels as if it was written for your eyes alone. To wit and to whet, here is a snippet, a slight nip of our delicious lit mix: Loving
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