Tatsiana Zamirovskaya is a Belarusian author who moved to Brooklyn in 2015 after working for 15 years as a journalist and music critic in Belarusian independent media. She writes metaphysical and socially charged fiction about memory, ghosts, hybrid identities and borders between empires and languages. She is the author of three short story collections in Russian and a novel about digital resurrection and digital dictatorships, The Deadnet (2021), which was shortlisted in several Russophone literary awards. Her most recent book of memoir essays on emigration, war, music and displacement, Eurydice, check if you turned off the gas, was published in 2024 by a Belarusian independent publisher in exile in Warsaw, Poland, and became a bestseller, selling out within just a few months.
At MacDowell in 2018, Zamirovskaya performed the final editing of the manuscript of her third collection of short stories written in Russian, The Land of Random Numbers. Additionally, she started drafting The Deadnet – a metaphysical sci-fi piece about rejection, transition, minorities and borders, not only between countries and states, but also between life and death. During her 2025 residency, Zamirovskaya worked at her first English-language collection of short stories - translating, revising, and rewriting, to complete a full manuscript now ready to be pitched to publishers.
