Anna Akhmatova

Anna Andreyevna Gorenko was born at Bolshoy Fontan, near the Black Sea port of Odessa, and moved with her family to Tsarskoye Selo, near St. Petersburg when she was eleven months old. Her parents were both descended from Russian nobility. From age 7 to 13 she and her family spent their summers in a dacha near Sevastopol. She started writing poetry at the age of 11, and was first published at age 17. Her father did not want poetry published under his name, so she adopted her grandmother's surname...

Lyn Coffin writes across genres, from fiction to poetry and biography. Her novels include Green Lake & the Lifeboat Café and Rifles and Reception Lines, and she published poetry collections like The poetry of wickedness and other poems. She also explored the life of Anna Akhmatova.