T. made her first contacts with literary and art professionals during her trip to Crimea in September 2015 as a participant in the Bosphorus Geopoetic Forum. She has known the organizer of the forum, Igor’ Sidorenko (Sid), for seven years already — they have remained in contact after she became interested in his concept of geopoetics and interviewed him about it. In Sevastopol, moreover, she met a number of interesting people who reflect her view of the political change and the Crimean text.
