The Poetry Elena Katishonok characterized wonderful combinations. Strange neighborhood household items, fairy motives, theatrical images of children's folklore. Connect bizarre associativity and strict architectonic poetry, fine eye estimation. And - most valuable - restrained, slightly spiced with irony and tragedy of the high tone of the lyrics. What poetry is not a new word order that is born from the known - passed, read and lived by us? The more valuable to each of us own life and the reading experience, the more temptation in this new order - a new breath of verse (Olga Slavin). Katishonok Elena was born in Latvia, graduated from the philological faculty of the University of Latvia. In 1991 he emigrated to the United States, where he still lives, teaches Russian, is engaged in editing and translating, writing poetry. She made her d_but collection of poems "Bloknote" (Hermitage Publishers, 2005). Three years later, in collaboration with Eugene Palagashvili 'out hunting pheasant "- a striking fusion of images with poetry workshops, they resonate (M * Graphics Publishing, 2008. NOVEL "Jili byli starik so staruhoi" in 2009 he joined the short list of the most prestigious literary awards, "Russian Booker".
