Asya Kravchenko

Asya Kravchenko is a writer, psychologist, journalist, and mother of two daughters, Polina and Natalya.

In 1994, she graduated simultaneously from the Faculty of Psychology and the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Moscow State University. She spent a year studying at the Sorbonne. In Paris, she completed a program in clinical psychology and did an internship at a pediatric neurological rehabilitation clinic, working with children diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

She returned to the postgraduate program at the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University and in 2001 defended her dissertation on the topic “Motivation of Demonstrative Behavior.”

After university, she worked as a journalist at Nezavisimaya Gazeta and as an editor at the theater magazine Stanislavsky. At the same time, she wrote screenplays for animated films.

In 2002, her first story about a horse named Kabachok appeared in the children's magazine Toshka. From it grew the widely loved novella Hello, Horse!