Maria Kuznetsova was born in Kyiv, Ukraine and moved to the United States as a child. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her debut novel, OKSANA, BEHAVE! was published by Spiegel & Grau/Random House in 2019 and was a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick as well as a best spring read according to Oprah Magazine, InStyle, Pop Sugar, and The Wall Street Journal.
Her second novel, SOMETHING UNBELIEVABLE, was published by Random House in April 2021 and was praised in the New York Times and called a best spring read according to PureWow, AV Club, Paperback Paris, Alma, and Bustle.
She has recently completed LUZER, a “neurotic thriller” about an anxious and spirited high school student named Marina Luzer whose best friend disappears after becoming obsessed with her long-ago missing aunt, leading Marina on a wild journey back to her homeland of Ukraine to find out what really happened to the two missing women whose lives have taken over her own.
She lives in Auburn, Alabama with her husband and two children, and is an Assistant Prof
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Svetlana Kuznetsova
Russian tennis player (born 1985)
For other uses, see Svetlana Kuznetsova (disambiguation).
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Aleksandrovna and the family name is Kuznetsova.
Kuznetsova at the 2014 US Open
Country (sports)
Russia
Residence
Moscow, Russia[1]
Born
(1985-06-27) 27 June 1985 (age 39) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height
1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro
2000
Retired
2021
Plays
Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach
Gustavo Marcaccio
Prize money
$25,816,890[2]
Career record
670–348
Career titles
18
Highest ranking
No. 2 (10 September 2007)
Australian Open
QF (2005, 2009, 2013)
French Open
W (2009)
Wimbledon
QF (2003, 2005, 2007, 2017)
US Open
W (2004)
Tour Finals
SF (2016)
Olympic Games
QF (2004)
Career record
259–135
Career titles
16
Highest ranking
No. 3 (7 June 2004)
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Biography
A native of Moscow, Dina Kuznetsova is an alumna of the Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Soprano Dina Kuznetsova went on to star in a number of productions there including The Cunning Little Vixen, Rigoletto, Romeo et Juliette and, marking her role debut as Tatyana, Eugene Onegin under the baton of Sir Andrew Davis.
Dina Kuznetsova has attracted the attention of the world's major opera companies for her outstanding musicianship and compelling stage presence. Dina Kuznetsova has performed in many of the world's greatest opera houses, from the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Berlin's Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper and Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper to the San Francisco and Chicago Lyric Operas.
Kuznetsova's signature roles have included Verdi's Gilda (Rigoletto), Violetta (La traviata) and Alice Ford (Falstaff); Puccini's Mimi and Musetta (La boheme), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi); Tchaikovsky's Tatiana (Eugene Onegin); Bellini's Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi); Mozart's Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and Pamina (Magic Flute); Doniz