Born in Moscow, Russia. She studied violin
and piano at the Moscow Conservatory,
continued her musical education in Europe.
    Moved to New York in 1993.
    
    She writes both in English and Russian.
Her poetry has been published in Poets West
Literary Journal, Liberty Magazine,
the Portland Review - Cartographica, Red 
Wheelbarrow, California Quarterly: ÑSPS 
PL&LR, Ginosko, In Our Own Words: 
A Generation Defining Itself, russian 
journal The Coast and others.
    She also works in collage, a multi-
dimensional medium combining the harmonic 
relation of color, music, and the written word.
Performing Arts is a form of her poetic 
expression, on stage.










     



"The collages of Elena Fattakova" by W. Benton.


... Collage is a medium in which the irrati-
onal, the sudden juxtaposition of disparate
realities, is an essential element of compo-
sition. Dissociation between things is the 
necessary condition for the stunning alchemy
that connects them. Fattakova is fluent in
this shadow dance at the edge of the uncons-
cious, where the work of both and artist 
takes place.   [read more]




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