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Nikita Nelin was born in Moscow, Russia and immigrated to the U.S in 1989. He has lived in Austria and Italy, and has traveled the U.S extensively. He received the Sean O’Faolain prize for short fiction, the Summer Literary Seminars prize for nonfiction, and the Dogwood Literary Prize in Nonfiction, as well as being chosen as a finalist for the Restless Books Immigrant prize and the Dzanc Books prize. His work has been published in print and online. Nikita has conducted research through the Harriman Institute as well as translation through Yale Press, and has written on the convergence between fringe and at-large cultural trends for the Hannah Arendt Center. He holds an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College, is a 2019 Associate Fellow at The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, and is a member of the Southern Experience Collective.
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You thought you knew what it meant
to live like this
below the light
when the weather changes;
you thought you knew
what it was like
to be hungry with gold.
You traded memories
for credit
and accepted an uneven return.
You took to living by the astrology of naked light
when the weather was with you.
Is it a gift, or the fog–
they just won’t tell us.
What is cash-money, but a neglected promise
and the name of a dog…?