Katya Kazbek
is a writer, translator and editor, who lives and works in New York City. She writes about the world’s cultures for supamodu.com and elsewhere.
Katya graduated from Columbia University’s MFA and University of Oxford’s writing MSt program. She is now an assistant adjunct professor at Columbia and instructor at The Writers’ Circle. In the past, she has also taught at Catapult and organized community workshops in NYC.
Katya’s first novel “Little Foxes Took Up Matches” is a coming-of-age story set in Moscow right after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It received a starred review from Kirkus, and praise from The New York Times, Vogue, Buzzfeed, Publisher’s Weekly, and others.
Katya is interested in translated literature, foreign film, and world music and art that focus on social and working class issues. She likes moles, and exploring the natural and industrial wonders of the East Coast and wherever she gets to travel with her partner.