Russian author of
short stories. Born in 1951 in
Leningrad (
St. Petersburg). Great-grandniece of
Leo Tolstoy, granddaughter of
Alexei Tolstoy, sister of
Natalia Tolstaya, with whom she co-authored
Sisters (1998). Subject of
TNT: The Explosive World of Tatyana N. Tolstaya's Fiction (1996) by
Helena Goscilo, an expert in Russian Women's Literature.
Author of two collections of short stories, On A Golden Porch (1987), which has been translated into at least a dozen languages, and Sleepwalker in a Fog (1992). Tolstaya's short stories have often appeared in both Russian and American journals, include Neva and the New Yorker. Lives in Moscow, but teaches at Skidmore College in New York.