Leonid Georgievsky (formerly Elena Nikolayevna Georgievskaya, ; b. June 9, 1980 in Yaroslavl Oblast, USSR) is a Russian author and political activist. Georgievsky is a transgender person and uses "he/him" pronouns.https://www.facebook.com/georgievskaia He changed the gender marker on passport in 2023https://sites.google.com/view/vtorayaotmena/главная-страницаhttps://sites.google.com/view/vtorayaotmena/биография-и-ссылки-на-публикации.
He graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in 2006. He also studied at the Herzen University (1999–2000) and at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Saint Petersburg State University (2000–2001). He is a member of the Union of Russian Writers (since 2012).
He was longlisted for the Debut Prize (2006, 2013, 2015). He is a recipient of a Khavinson Grant (2006). He is a recipient of the 2010 Fellowship of the Ministry of Culture. He lives in Kaliningrad and Moscow.
Georgievsky was published in the F Letter anthology under the name Elena Georgievskayahttps://artmetropole.com/shop/16212https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/10/13/oath/, served as one of the editors of the F-Pismo projecthttps://vk.com/wall-46295010_2059, and co-edited — alongside Anna Golubkova and Yulia Podlubnova — «Сетка Цеткин» (Zetkin's Net), Russia’s first anthology of feminist criticismhttps://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R100000136-I1971712334813636126https://articulationproject.net/13115.
He is the author of books including «Вода и ветер» (Вагриус, 2009, ), «Хаим Мендл» (Franc-tireur USA, 2011), «Книга 0» (Franc-tireur USA, 2012), «Сталелитейные осы» (Вивернариум, 2017, , ), «Онейросеть» (Literature Without Borders, 2025)https://slova-vne.com/news/vyshel-poeticheskiy-sbornik-leonida-georgievskogo. Olga Slavnikova praised his early novel «Место для шага вперёд».
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External links Official site (in Russian and English) Debut Prize official site (in Russian) Новая карта русской литературы (in Russian) https://articulationproject.net/177 (in Russian) Interviews Елена Георгиевская: “Я люблю понятные” (2010) Писатель Елена Георгиевская: «Я себя чувствую больше человеком, чем женщиной» (2012)