Marina Sonkina

Marina Sonkina is a scholar and a fiction writer who speaks and writes in

several languages. A former Professor of Russian Literature at the Moscow

State University, she lived in Toronto, then in Montreal where she worked as

a CBC producer and broadcaster. Now living in Vancouver, she divides her

time between teaching at Simon Fraser University and the University of British

Columbia, and writing.

Sonkina’s other books include Lucia’s Eyes and Other Stories; Runic Alphabet;

Tractorina’s Travels; The Violin That Wanted to See The World; Snail Gail and the

Stone Man.