Anya Ulinich grew up in Moscow, Russia, and immigrated to Arizona when she was seventeen. She holds an MFA in visual arts from the University of California, Davis. Her first novel, Petropolis, was published by Penguin in 2007. It was translated into ten languages, named Best Book of the Year by The Christian Science Monitor and The Village Voice, and selected as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 writers by Ken Kalfus. Ulinich’s short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, and Zoetrope: All-Story. She lives in Brooklyn with her two daughters, and is working on a graphic novel.