About the Author

Anna Babiashkina, born in 1979 in a small town in Central Russia, has a degree in Journalism from Moscow University. Currently she lives in Moscow and works as chief editor of a women's magazine "The Farmer Woman" with a circulation of 180,000. She has several published novels to her name which will all be reprinted in 2013 by the largest Russian publishing Exmo as a featured series.
In 2011 her semi-fantasy novel Before I Croak won the Debut Prize and previously it has also won the Bestseller Prize as the best "urban novel."