Ellina Zipman is an internationally published writer. Born in Tashkent, living in Melbourne since 1989, Ellina completed her Masters degree in music, translated a book by the Australian author Steve Carroll 'Remember Me, Jimmy James' into Russian and was selected to participate in "Portability," a bilingual writers project at the opening of the Immigration Museum. She won third prize in Monash University's Russian Writers Competition for her story "Airports." Ellina's poems were also published in the 2012 anthology, 28 People Write.
