Ippolita Kupreyanova lives in Russia, in the ancient Russian city of Suzdal. She began to write poetry during childhood. In her youth she wrote songs in the style of bard, rock and folk.

 

She studied at the Literary Institute, later graduated from VGIK - the Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. Filmmaker by profession she wrote several feature films for adults and children, as a director she made a documentary about the work of volunteers in a boarding school for the disabled near St. Petersburg.

She currently works as a teacher of Russian language and literature in Suzdal, in her spare time she writes poetry, prose and scripts.

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“I've never been to Ireland, but I love it very much. Largely thanks to literature, Irish myths, druids and bards, Oscar Wilde and Yeats, Joyce and Dublin, the absurd Beckett, limericks by Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, Lawrence Stern are all my guiding stars. If I had not been born in Russia, I would have been born in Ireland. The sea, northern nature, storms, fogs, moorlands, green meadows and rocks are the landscape of my soul.

I know "how important it is to be serious," so I never took my poetry seriously. But finally they will see the light. And I am very glad that the first book of my poems will be published in Ireland. With beautiful photos from my childhood friend "