Anna Kreslavskaya was born and grew up in Ukraine (Zaporozhye & Kharkov). A philologist by profession, she worked as a teacher of Russian and world literature. She has been writing poetry her entire life. After she had emigrated, she lived between England and Belgium. Currently, she lives in the Netherlands. She is a winner of the First International (Russian-language) Internet Poetry Contest “The Emigré Lyre”.