Marianna Geide is a poet and prose writer. Born in 1980, she graduated from the Russian State University of the Humanities (RGGU) as a specialist in the life and work of Thomas Aquinas. She is the author of two books of poetry, Vremia opyleniia veshchei (2005) ans Slizni Garroty (2006), and has been awarded sevral poetry prizez. “Like a schoolboy” will appear this fall in New Russian Poetry, and anthology to be published by Dalkey Archive Press as part of a billingual project of the National Endowment for the Arts.