Maria Galina
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Maria Galina
Poet and novelist, Maria Galina was born in Tver; she spent her youth in Ukraine and majored in marine biology from Odessa University. She received her Ph.D. in biology and worked on environmental impact on salmon at the Bergen University in Norway. In Moscow since 1987, Galina abandoned science and took up literature as translator, poet and fantasy writer. She is a renowned literary critic. Since 1996 her science fiction novels, published