Anna Kondratova
Anna Kondratova was born in the former USSR, lived in Belarus, the Caucasus and Siberia as a child, and later studied physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and history of culture at Moscow State University. In 1997, Anna moved to the United States to work and earn her PhD in molecular biology. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio (which, weather-wise, reminds her of Russia). She has three grown-up children, is an opera aficionada and studies humanities at Case Western Reserve University.