Jana Bakunina came to Britain in 1999 to study at Oxford University and after a career in finance, she has written on Russia for multiple publications including the Financial Times, New Statesman, The Standard, Sifted and the Spectator. Her fiction was shortlisted for the 2022 Bridport Prize, she was a finalist for the 2022 London Independent Short Story Prize and in 2023 came second in the Olga Sinclair Prize. She lives in London.