Stone, Raisa

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Author Raisa Stone ate pureed borshch as baby food & cut dough circles for varenyky (perogies) as soon as she could reach the table top.

She spent 50 years collecting outrageous stories from survivors of Soviet & Nazi oppression, including her family.

She is a former Features writer for "The Winnipeg Gazette" and instructor for the "Victoria School of Writing." Her poetry was chosen by national Ukrainian magazine "Nasha Doroha" to commemorate the Chornobyl disa...