Ilia Dolgov (he/him) is a gardener, artist, and writer. Born in 1984 in Voronezh, Russia, he left the country in 2022 in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Ilia has received several awards, the most recent being the Andrei Bely Literature Prize 2023, and holds an MFA in Environmental Art and Social Practice from University of California Santa Cruz, where he teaches now as a lecturer at the Art Department.
I tend gardens because, every morning, I need to be seduced into living. I invite others to trust these gardens' gaze and voice because the seduction is either shared or airless.
