About the author. Born in Uralsk in 1954 in a family of hereditary Cossacks. She graduated from the Financial and Economic Institute in Leningrad with a degree in accounting. Lives and works in St. Petersburg. Hobbies - participation in the activities of the Konstantinovsky Leisure Society at the World Club of St. Petersburg, tourism, water recreation, embroidery, amateur floriculture, performing romances with a guitar. Published poems in the collections "Seasons" (2 volumes ), “Elements of Nature” (book 3), “Binding Word”, Almanac of the Alekseevsky Creative Club of Ivanovo, in the “Ural Military Gazette” (number 2).