Anna Dankowtsewa was born 1961 in central Russia, she spent her childhood in Weimar. She studied computer sciences in Moscow and also graduated from drama school. She worked as an assistant to the director of the Moscow theatre ›Ermitage‹, as a children's book writer and as a freelancer for several magazines. She has been a freelancer at ›Radio Liberty‹ in Moscow since 1998. She writes books for adults, children and adolescents.