Sten Tarkusest 🇪🇪🇺🇸 ~ 🇺🇦

@tarkusest.bsky.social

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Crafter of literaryish fantasy, oft too indulgent of beautiful language in exploring how personal stories embody social ones. Californian and non-taciturn Estonian, mostly domesticated. Now in Clarion West 2026 Novel Workshop The best for you, always

Ben Kingsley as a young Gandhi smiling
A copy of my dissertation, open to a random graph.
Movie poster of Flow
Viper in russet sand, beautifully lit. Paul Lennart Schmidt.
A white husky looking so imploringly you can just hear the quiet whimpers
A solitary cloud hangs on the side of a Douglas Fir covered ridge above a river. Mendocino County, California
A blank page of a journal open with fountain pen in a warm wood room beside a fireplace and a husky on the bed looking out the window at the rain.
Foggy Mendocino coast with bluffs and Douglas Fir forest
Sunset over the pacific
Cover of the Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
A lovely Estonia invented Christmas tree!
Person reading a cozy book with thick crinkly pages beside a fire in a brick fireplace
Cover of Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
Cover of Last First Snow by Max Gladstone
Cover of the 2017 game Horizon Zero Dawn
The cover of Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Wine cellar of the Confraternita del Prosecco de Valdabbiodene