Ilya Ash

Poet and journalist

Ilya Ash

Poet and journalist

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I served as a web­site editor for the Echo of Moscow radio station (2010-2015) and as a senior editor for Discourse online magazine (2019-2020). Ironically, both were later banned by Russian authorities, and Echo was ultimately closed for good.

In 2012, I started working on the Book News — at first, it was a personal project for social media, but after a while, I was offered to reimagine it for the air, so it became a small weekend segment on the radio, which I wrote and hosted (currently the project is in elongated hiatus).

Also, I contributed as an author, editor, and/or translator to various other outlets, including Esquire Kazakhstan, Colta.ru, Booknik.ru, and International Jewish Gazette.

My poetry texts were published in various Russian and Israeli media, and the double-feature book “Worthless Songs/Lilliputian Porn” is due to be released in mid-2023.