Gousseva, Julia

Julia Gousseva was born and raised in Moscow, Russia. As she grew up, she saw her country go through dramatic social, economic, and political changes in the early 1990's. Her fiction is influenced by her life experiences and her love of Russian fairy-tales (no, the promise of the bright communist future is not one of her favorite fairy-tales -- she prefers happy endings). Julia lives in Arizona with her husband and her son.