DMITRI is a photographer, poet of the weird, and writer, living on Kaurna country. His poetry and prose have appeared in Penumbra and Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press), So It Goes (Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library), Spawn II (IFWG), Skull & Laurel Magazine (Tenebrous Press), and The Deadlands (Psychopomp). For a limited bibliography, see here.
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In 2020, DMITRI was Highly Commended within the Literature category by the Global Undergraduate Awards. His essay was about metanarratives in Don DeLillo's White Noise.
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Previously, DMITRI undertook postgraduate research studies on Ezra Pound and intercultural exchange. This has deeply affected his worldview, as well as his creative theory and practice.
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Education
2017 - 2020
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), English Literature
University of Adelaide
DMITRI undertook an honours year where his thesis was entitled, "The Dialectic Between Reason and Its Other in Samuel Beckett's Trois romans."
2025 - ongoing
Bachelor of Photography and Digital Imaging
Photography Studies College
DMITRI is currently a student at the Photography Studies College, located in Narrm (Melbourne, Victoria).
2021 - discontinued
PhD in Literature and Languages
University of Adelaide
DMITRI briefly studied a PhD on Ezra Pound's Cantos and its links with interculturalism and internationalism.