Irena Smith
Irena Smith was born in the former Soviet Union and grew up in Moscow in the waning days of the Brezhnev regime; in 1977, her family emigrated from the USSR and sought asylum in the United States as political refugees. She has been published in HIAS@130: 1+30: The Best of myStory, Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life , Literary Mama and Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis . She has a PhD in comparative literature from UCLA and lives in Palo Alto, California.
Irena Smith was born in the former Soviet Union and grew up in Moscow in the waning days of the Brezhnev regime; in 1977, her family emigrated from the USSR and sought asylum in the United States as political refugees. She has been published in HIAS@130: 1+30: The Best of myStory, Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life , Literary Mama and Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis . She has a PhD in comparative literature from UCLA and lives in Palo Alto, California. See less
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