BIO

KASIA NIKHAMINA is the author of the creative prose blog, THE MAYOR'S HOTEL, which launched in 2007.

Her first play, REDBEARD & DOMICELLA, directed by Michael Rau, was presented as part of the Too Soon Festival at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in June 2010.

Her one-act, TWO MEN BE IN THE PARK, was presented as part of a series of plays about Central Park in May 2010, directed by Darragh Martin (The Invisible Company).

Her work has been regularly featured at Hearth Gods, a reading series at Jimmy’s No. 43 in the East Village.

She received the Philolexian Prize for her novella, QUIXOTA, from Columbia University, where she earned her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Society in 2007. As a senior at Columbia, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Review and as the Managing Editor of the Birch, the undergraduate journal of Eastern European and Eurasian culture. Prior to that, she served on the editorial board of both magazines.

She attended Stuyvesant High School, where she directed Open Mics. She has published poems and stories in RattapallaxThe Brooklyn ReviewThe Columbia ReviewThe Birch, and Poetry in Performance.

She is working on a new play, NIXON OUT OF OFFICE, and saving for a voyage to Patagonia.