Nice to meet you!

I’m Tatyana.

I write personal essays and fiction. I’ve completed my novel An Ideal Marriage, a midlife love story and domestic comedy about an uncompromising singleton who finally finds love at 47, only to discover she’s unprepared to begin a life with someone when hers is already halfway over.

Over at Beauty Hunter on Substack, we explore the ways beauty in daily life can spark delight, interrupt despair, and remind us that life is filled with mischief and awe, even during the sh*t times.

I’m also a creativity coach to select midlifers who are eager to start, resume, or finish a writing project.