Svetlana Lavochkina is a Ukrainian-born novelist, poet and translator, currently residing in Leipzig, Germany. Her work was published or is forthcoming in numerous literary magazines and anthologies in the US and UK, including AGNI, Poem, Witness, Superstition Review, Drunken Boat, Circumference, Cerise Press, Eclectica, Mad Hatters' Review, The Literary Review, Chamber Four Fiction Anthology. She was shortlisted for Million Writers' Award in 2010. Her novella "Dam Duchess" was a runner-up in the Paris Literary Prize 2013. Her debut novel "Zap", slated for publication in 2017, was finalist in Tibor&Jones Pageturner Prize, London.