Svetlana Kitto is a writer and oral historian in NYC. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Longreads, The Cut, Hyperallergic, Interview, CULTURED, Guernica, BOMB, VICE, ART21, and the Journal - Danspace Project, where she was Writer-in-Residence in 2016. As an oral historian, she's contributed oral histories to archives and exhibitions at the Brooklyn Historical Society, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Museum of Arts and Design, NYPL for Performing Arts, and Gordon Gallery Robichaux, where she is in-house writer and oral historian. Since 2013, she has co-curated the reading and performance series Adult Contemporary, which has created programming for Hauser & Wirth, Storm King Art Center, and CANADA, among other galleries and institutions. Currently, she’s an MFA candidate in Fiction at the New School, where she is completing an oral-history novel about gay clubs in Eastern Europe.
