Sveta Yefimenko is a Russian American writer and researcher based in Exeter, UK. Her literary and scholarly work has appeared in The Moth Magazine; Clover: A Literary Rag; Question Journal; Thought Catalog; and the forthcoming volume, Reading Backwards: An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary academic journal, Xanthos: A Journal of Foreign Literatures and Languages.