Dinara Asadulina
Dinara Asadulina is a writer and an educator, exploring what it is to be human and to learn. She received a BA (Hons) in Linguistics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She completed an MPhil in Education from the University of Cambridge as a Chevening and Cambridge Trust scholar. Since 2012 Dinara has been a co-founder and a director of Plombir School, an independent progressive school for young children, where many students come from marginalised communities. The school is focused on nurturing creativity and social, emotional, and ethical skills through art (visual, performative and literary). As an artist, Dinara sees a page as an open space and works in multidisciplinary writing, verse fiction, poetry and installation.