We Are No Longer Home Anywhere

Yulia Belomlinskaya was born in Leningrad in 1960.

She graduated from the directing department of the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography. Worked as a book illustrator, and as a costume designer in theater and film (including Kira Muratova’s film “Change of Fate”).

In 1989–2001 she lived in the USA and worked as a fabric designer.

In emigration she began to sing and created the mono-performance “Poor Girl,” based on city romances of her own composition.

In Jersey City near New York she opened a small publishing house, “Julietta and Ghosts,” where, besides her own works, she published collections by Aleksey Khvostenko, Vladimir Druk, and others, designed by her.

In 2001 she returned to Saint Petersburg. She published as a publicist in “Russian Journal” and “Petersburg on the Neva.”

Member of the Union of Artists of Russia, member of the Union of Russian Writers, member of the international arts partnership “Osumbez.”

Three books of prose and one poetry book have been released. Her prose has been translated into German.