Ольга Грушина

Родилась в Москве, в семье советского социолога Бориса Грушина, в 1988 году поступила на журфак МГУ, а в 1989-м, получив грант Вудро Вильсона, отправилась доучиваться в Штаты. Таким образом, в 1993-м она оказалась первой российской гражданкой, получившей американский диплом.

Ольга замужем, муж-юрист, американец. Живет в США и вместе с мужем воспитывает их трехлетнего сына Александра.

Born in Moscow, in the family of a pioneering Soviet sociologist Boris Grushin, Olga Grushin spent her early childhood in Prague. After returning to Moscow, she studied art history at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and journalism at Moscow State University. In 1989, she was given a full scholarship to Emory University, and became the first Russian citizen to enroll in and complete a four-year American college program, graduating summa cum laude in 1993.

Since coming to the United States, she has been an interpreter for President Jimmy Carter, a cocktail waitress in a jazz bar, a translator at the World Bank, a research analyst at a Washington law firm, and, most recently, an editor at Harvard University's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.

Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, Partisan Review, The Massachusetts Review, Confrontation, and Art Times; her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Granta, Vogue, The Daily Mail, and elsewhere. The Dream Life of Sukhanov, her first novel (published in 2006), won the 2007 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post Top Ten Best Book of the Year, and has been translated into fourteen languages. Her second novel, The Line (The Concert Ticket in the UK), was published in April 2010 and chosen as an Editors' Choice book by The New York Times. She is now at work on her third book.

A citizen of both Russia and the United States, Grushin lives near Washington, DC, with her husband and children.