Elena Ushakova was born in 1945 in Leningrad. She graduated from Leningrad
University. Ushakova is a philologist, critic, essayist, as well as poet.
Her main field of studies is the theory of poetic speech and she has written
numerous articles and a book on the subject. She has published three collections
of poetry and was awarded the Severnaya Palmira Prize in 1999.
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