Natalya Antonova

Kaliningrad writer

Born on 1 January 1977 in the settlement of Yantarny, Kaliningrad Region. In 1999 she graduated from the Literature Department of the Faculty of Philology at Kaliningrad State University. She taught Russian language and literature at a school, then worked at the Baltic Institute of Economics and Finance as a pre-university education manager and as a lecturer in Russian language and career guidance management. I have been engaged in literary work since 1995. My work has appeared in the Russian-language literary magazine "Reflect" (USA), in the competition collection "Young Voices" for 2000–2005, in the anthology of contemporary Kaliningrad literature "Children of Homeless Nights", in the almanac "Postscriptum" (Sweden) and in the almanac "The Kite". In 2007 I took part in the Russian-Polish-Lithuanian project "Baltoslavia", and my works, including the short story "But I Want to Go to Tibet", were published in four issues of the literary and art magazine "Parallels". In 2012 stories from the cycle "Changes" (an interpretation of the Chinese classic "Book of Changes") were published in the anthology of Kaliningrad prose "Sunstroke" and in the "Anthology of the Strange Story" (Ukraine). My work has also been published in the Kaliningrad literary magazine "Baltika". In 2012 I became one of the founders of the international literary project "Gogo Street". I am currently active in literary, journalistic and social work, which includes advocacy for the civil rights of the indigenous people of Tibet.