Xeňa Stanislavovna Semjonová is a poet, artist, and a translator living in New York City. Originally from Slovakia, she has performed in venues such as New York’s Dixon Place Theater, Bowery Poetry Club, The Poetry Project, Michelle Tea’s RADAR in San Francisco, SPECTRUM NYC, Strange Maine, Happy Endings, GRRRLS on FILM, and others. She is currently working on her first full-length novel entitled SHE, and is the curator of the WHAT NOW audio anthology supported by the Jerome Foundation and the Raymond Federman Foundation of Experimental Fiction. She has recently been selected as a 2013 Poets House fellow, and is also the recipient of a 2013 QAM fellowship.