TATSIANA ZAMIROVSKAYA is a writer, music critic, and journalist from Minsk, Belarus, who currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

She graduated with a degree in Journalism from Belarusian State University (2002) and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Bard College. Her journalistic works have been published in a variety of Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian media outlets. In Belarus, she worked as a magazine editor (Jazz-Quad Magazine, Belarus; Doberman Magazine) and as the arts and culture observer at Belagazeta, the most prominent Belarusian independent weekly newspaper. She also had a successful career as a music critic.

In 2015, Tatsiana moved to New York to earn her MFA at Bard College, where her thesis was an English-language novel-in-progress, Silence Fiction. In this project, she moved away from her native language, exploring the concepts of alienation and studying the effects of language insufficiency on memory, narration, and representation.

Tatsiana presented excerpts from this work-in-progress during readings at New York institutions such as Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn), Howl! Happening Gallery, Printed Matter bookstore, and Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. In 2018, Tatsiana won a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony and, in 2019, was accepted to the VCCA artist colony.

Tatsiana is the author of three Russian-language short story collections: Life Without Noise and Pain (2010), Sparrow River (2010), and The Land of Random Numbers (2019), published by AST Publishing House in Moscow. Tatsiana’s short stories have been published in Russian-language magazines worldwide. In 2018, her short story Honeyfast was awarded the Gorchev Award, a prestigious Russian prize for short fiction.

The Deadnet, her debut novel, received nominations for the New Literature Award, the National Bestseller Prize, the New Horizons Award in season 2021-2022. Film rights to the novel have been optioned; the English-language film series is currently in development.