IRINA FROLOVA Irina Frolova is a Russian-Australian writer. She has a degree in philology from Moscow City Pedagogical University and is studying psychology at Deakin University. Her work speaks to the experience of immigration, neurodivergence, and a search for belonging. It draws on folklore and explores archetypes through cultural and feminist lenses. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Not Very Quiet, Australian Poetry Collaboration, Baby Teeth Journal, Rochford Street Review, The Blue Nib, The Australian Multilingual Writing Project, Live Encounters, Mascara Literary Review, Kalliope X, Burrow, and various anthologies. Irina’s creative highlights include her first collection of poetry Far and Wild (released byFlying Island Books in 2021), winning the second prize in the 2021 Deborah Cass Prize for writing, and being shortlisted for the 2022 Alice Sinclair Writing Competition.
The Light in You for Michael this burnt honey this warm amber flecked with green has me lost in the soft folds of an afternoon I amble in autumnal woods where a wide sunbeam shines through the canopy I savour it trace it to the heavens I never knew love could be this full this light
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