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Marina Hagen (born Marina Anatol’yevna Hagen, Russian Cyrillic: Марина Анатольевна Хаген; born March 26, 1974, Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, U.S.S.R.), Russian free verse and haikai poet. She studied applied mathematics at Chelyabinsk Technical University and works as a computer programmer. She won the top prize in the 1st All-Russian Haiku Contest (1998) and frequently contributes to almanacs (“thick journals”), including «Тритон» (Triton), «Чёрным по белому» (Black on White), «Вавилон» (Babylon), and «Абзац» (Paragraph) as well as poetry magazines «Урал» (Ural), «Крещатик» (Kreshchatik), «Уральская новь» (Ural Virgin Soil), «Арион» (Arion), «Новый берег» (New Shore), and «Воздух» (Air). Hagen has also been published in Frogpond, Simply Haiku, TempsLibres, and World Haiku Review as well as several websites. She has had work included in Dmitry Kuz’min’s anthology Non-Capital Literature: Poetry and Prose from the Regions of Russia (2001) and Mikhail Baru’s Through the Silence: Anthology of Russian Haiku, Senryu and Three-liners (2006). Two collections of her own poetry have been published: «Тени отражений» (Shadows of Reflections; 2001) and «Дневник без наблюдений», Diary Without Observations; 2002). She has resided in Moscow since 2003.
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Source: Anthology of Contemporary Urals Poetry website
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