Literary Showcase Participants

Vadim Yarmolinets

Vadim Yarmolinets is a journalist and fiction writer who made the Big Book Award short list in 2009 with the novel Lead Zeppelin: Jericho 86-89, a book that includes Yarmolinets’s native city, Odessa, and a journalist character who’s forced to move to the United States. Yarmolinets’s literary resume also includes books of “ironic prose,” essays, and stories. He has worked as a journalist in Odessa and New York, and hosts a morning show on Davidzon Radio, an AM station.