AKHMATOVA Elena

Born 08.12.1961 g., in Belarus, in rybsovhoze "Sokolovo, Zhabinka district of Brest region.
Father - Mikhail Kovalchuk Ignatievich, specialty mechanic, worked at a sugar factory. His mother, Kovalchuk Nina - an agronomist, taught in the school-Intertat.
Childhood and youth I spent in Mr.. Zhabinka Brest region., Graduated from music school, fond of music, art, literature. After graduating from high school three times tried to enter the Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Art of. Mukhina, but the training received by a provincial artist, has been inadequate. In 1981. was a creative contest and entered the daytime department Faculty of Journalism LSU
. After graduation he worked briefly in the large-circulation newspaper on labor watch "correspondent, . then I was offered a literary editor of the magazine "Shipbuilding", . and since then more than 15 years I have been doing literary editing, . not technical, . and fiction (ed-va "Vasilevsky Ostrov, . "Measuring, . North-west, . "ABC", . "The Bible for All", . Petropol, . "Culture" and t,
. etc.).
My first major publication - a collection of Young Leningrad in 1989, under the pseudonym "Zhabinka" which I took on the name of our small country (according to my husband, I Akhmatova, printed under that name I think immodest). Then I participated in the XIX conference of young writers of the North-west. In 1993, Mr.. My collection of poems was published in "Change" for 20.02 under the heading "Poetery" Hamburg score ", in the same year published my first book of poems" Snail-tear ", where I made my debut as an artist. Since then, do not just editing, but the design of books of their fellow writers.
I have done illustrations for more than two dozen books - both poetry and prose for adults and children.
Currently I am the author of three books of poetry, in 2000 admitted to the Union of Writers of Russia.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Elena Akhmatova (pseudonym Zhabinka) - author of three books of poetry:
"Snail-tear" (St. Petersburg, Publishing. Petropol, 1993)
"Cardiac vale" (St. Petersburg, Publishing. "Duma", 1998),
"The light of love of heaven" (Bulgaria, Burgas, Publishing. "Demarazh, 1999)
Printed in the newspaper Smena, 20. 02. 1993. under the heading "Poetery" Hamburg score ", in" Neva "(1998, N 9), collections of Young Leningrad (1989)," Young Russia "(1999) and other collective publications.