
Maria Gulina

Residence:
LITERARY RESIDENCIES IN WARSAW FOR WRITERS, PLAYWRITERS AND TRANSLATORS FROM BELARUS AND UKRAINE 2024
Maria Gulina is a writer, editor and culture manager from Belarus. While in Belarus she worked extensively with local environmental organisations, specifically on the projects on the intersection of environmental education and art. She has been an editor of the Belarusian online travel-magazine 34travel, writing about sustainable tourism, Belarusian art, volunteering, and contemporary approaches to urbanism.
Maria received an MA in Media and Culture Studies at Lancaster University, her dissertation being on contemporary art strategies in working with the topic of climate crisis. She now works as a communications and content producer in Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, writing on socially engaged photography and climate aware photography.
Maria roots her writing practice in deep ecology and eco-art philosophy, looking attentively at the meaningful relationship we can foster with natural and urban places. She is also interested in contemporary autofiction, feminist and decolonial writing. She published her essays, short stories and poems in Belarusian decolonial collective books Rascjazenne and Roots / Leaves. Her first book, A white bird flew, was published in 2024 by Skaryna Press publishing house. It is a collection of essays exploring the intersections of traveling, art, nature protection and family history.