Margarita Serafimova

I was a salamander endemic to the sea,
its silver I was turning into gold, and myself —
into light, to the point of disappearance.

MARGARITA SERAFIMOVA was shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, Summer Literary Seminars Contest, University Centre Grimsby Literary Prize; long-listed for the Christopher Smart (Eyewear Publishing) Prize, Erbacce Press Poetry Prize, Red Wheelbarrow Prize; nominated for Best of the Net. She has work appears in Agenda Poetry, London Grip, Waxwing, Trafika Europe, European Literature Network, A-Minor, Poetry South, Great Weather for Media, Orbis, Nixes Mate, StepAway, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Mookychick, HeadStuff, Minor Literatures, Writing Disorder, Birds We Piled Loosely, Orbis, Chronogram, Noble/ Gas, Origins, Journal, miller’s pond, Obra/ Artifact, Central and Eastern European London Review, TAYO, Guttural, etc. Visit: facebook.com/MargaritaISerafimova.