Alena Filipenko

Filipenko Alena Igorevna Pseudonym: Ely Frey Genres: young adult fiction, Russian realism, books for teenagers, romance novels, contemporary romance novels

Born on January 5, 1990. Lives in Russia, in the city of Pushkino, Moscow Oblast. Graduated from the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. She did not go into the financial sector after graduating. She began studying contextual advertising courses, completed an internship, and for some time worked as a contextual advertising manager for Yandex.Direct at an advertising agency. Currently, writing is Alena’s only job. She loves sports — does pole dance and snowboards. She enjoys wandering through abandoned places — she adores ruined estates, bridges, depots, bunkers, and other unusual “wonders of the world.”