Jana Bakunina is the author of Stories by a Russian Londoner (2024), a collection of short stories that explores how political events mould our identities, challenge our beliefs and redefine our relationships. Her stories were longlisted for the 2021 and 2022 Fish Short Story Prize, shortlisted for the 2022 Bridport Prize, and she became a finalist of the 2022 London Independent Short Story Prize. In 2023, her story, “Ruby”, came second in the Olga Sinclair Prize competition. She is also the author of Bird’s Milk (2017), a memoir about growing up in the Soviet Union and moving to the West. She has written for the Financial Times, The Standard and New Statesman.