Sankt-Peterburzykiy derghavniy unіversitet, fіlolohіchniy fakulytet (strukturna і prikladna lіnhvіstika)

Alla Melenteva was born in Donetsk, Ukraine, in 1967. She graduated with a BA in linguistics from Saint-Petersburg University. Melenteva debuted as a writer in 2005 with the novel 'The Dostoevsky girls' published by Limbus Press (Saint-Petersburg, Russia). Her second book, 'Rin's Family', was published by KSD Publishing House, (Kharkiv, Ukraine) in 2016. Her stories and articles in Russian, Ukrainian and English have appeared in Spilne (Ukraine), Krayina (Ukraine), Inostrannaya Literatura (Russia), Druzhba Narodov (Russia), Neva (Russia), Monokler (Russia), Novy Bereg (Russia-Denmark), The London Magazine (UK). She has been a finalist for several awards for literature, both Russian and Ukrainian. Currently she lives in Kyiv, Ukraine.