Anna S. Kashina is a faculty member at the
University of Pennsylvania
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School of
Veterinary Medicine
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, as well as a writer. Originally from
Moscow
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, Russia, she graduated from
Moscow State University, and moved to the United States in 1994 and has been living there ever since.
She published her first fantasy novel, ''
The Princess of Dhagabad'', which is the first of “The Spirits of the Ancient Sands” trilogy, in 2000. The book is about a romance between an
Arabian
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princess and her
djinn
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– are invisible creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabian religious systems and later in Islamic mytho ...
who in turn becomes her slave, teacher and steadfast companion. Kashina has published two other books in Russia, one under the
pen name
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A pen na ...
Ann Porridge. ''The Princess of Dhagabad'' was her first English-language publication.
English-language novels
* ''
The Princess of Dhagabad, The Spirits of the Ancient Sands: BOOK ONE'' (2000)
*The Goddess of Dance, The Spirits of the Ancient Sands: BOOK TWO (2012)
*''Mistress of the Solstice''
/sup>(A fantasy novel set in the world of Russian myth) (2013)
*Blades of the Old Empire, The Majat Code, BOOK ONE (2014)
*The Guild of Assassins, The Majat Code, BOOK TWO (2014) (double Prism Award winner 2015)
*Assassin Queen, The Majat Code, BOOK THREE (2016)
*Shadowblade (2019)
Foreign language novels
* ''Mistress of the Solstice (Die Sonnwendherrin)'' (In German, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2008)
* ''The First Sword (Das Erste Schwert)'' (In German, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2008)
* ''In the Name of the Queen'' (In Russian, Moscow, NK, 1996)
Upcoming novels
* '' Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, Lacrimosa of Dana: The Official Novelization'' (2023)
External links
Anna Kashina's Personal Webpage
Anna Kashina's Professional Website
''Science'' Online Seminar presented by Anna Kashina
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Russian women novelists
Russian women short story writers
Russian women journalists
Russian veterinarians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Russian emigrants to the United States
University of Pennsylvania faculty
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