nataliya gorbina
fiction
cracks (2023)
a collection of short stories written by natasha gorbina and illustrated by bianca multerer
A chalk letter turns into a snake when a rookie teacher realises she is afraid of children. A chocolate box sets free the past of a young mother overwhelmed by her newborn baby. A rivulet of blood runs down the hands of an artist who might, quite possibly, have killed her soulmate. Inspired by the Greek tales of troubled women, powerful artefacts, and deadly curses, these stories peer through the cracks in the everyday lives of twelve modern-day heroines and explore their unconscious fears and hopes.
jar of silence (2017)
a short story
“Draw me a story,” his little sister would ask him almost every evening, and shadowy contours of a human figure would begin to appear under the brisk but confident movements of the charcoal. “You forgot the rod, Mo. You always forget the rod,” she would remind him and the charcoal would fly along a crack in the wooden floor, apologetically adding the essential detail, and then suddenly becoming hectic, twitching and spasming around the hovering figure, caressing the floor one moment and attacking it almost aggressively the next. Miriam would always be enchanted by how he did it, and lurching forward, the candlelight twinkling under her breath, she could see the waters part under the hand of her brother as the children of Israel would march toward their long-aspired-for freedom.
research
Monograph
Gorbina, Nataliya. The Ekphrastic Gaze in British Postmodern Fiction. WVT Trier, 2021.
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
Gorbina, Nataliya. “Let’s Play Culture & its Earnestly Subversive Metamodern Force.” Subversive Gaming, edited by Aparajita Bhandari and Sara Bimo, Palgrave. forthcoming.
Gorbina, Nataliya. “Ludic Fox Tales: Metamodern Hope, Biophilic Play, and Animal Fable Games.” PAIDIA – Zeitschrift für Computerspielforschung, 2025. [link]
Gorbina, Nataliya. “The (Meta-)Ekphrastic Event: Contemporary Performance Poetry and its Poetics of (Im-)Mediacy.” Audioliterary Poetry between Performance and Mediatization / Audioliterale Lyrik zwischen Performance und Mediatisierung, edited by Henrik Wehmeier, Marc Matter and Clara Cosima Wolff, De Gruyter, 2024: pp. 197-213. [link]
Gorbina, Nataliya. “The Aesthetics of Giotto’s ‘Perfect Circle’ in/and Iris Murdoch’s The Sandcastle.” University of Bucharest Review ns, vol. 7, no. 1, 2017, pp. 45-53. [link]
Gorbina, Nataliya. “Trompe L’Oeil in John Banville’s Novel The Book of Evidence (1989)”. Practices & Interpretations: A Journal of Philology, Teaching and Cultural Studies, no. 1, 2016, pp. 44-55. [link]
Gorbina, Nataliya. “M.Y. Lermontov’s Femme Émancipée”. Literature in the Dialogue of Cultures, no. 2, 2015, pp. 100-109.
Dzhumaylo, Olga A., and Nataliya Gorbina. “The Destruction of Boundaries as a Principle of Artistic Freedom in Virginia Woolf’s Novel Orlando”. Problems of Modernity and Postmodernity: Proceedings of the XLIII Philological Conference at Saint Petersburg State University, no. 4, 2014, pp. 36-40.
Glossary Entry
Gorbina, Nataliya. “Digital Poetry.” The Living Glossary of Digital Narrative, 2025. [link]
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