Татьяна Таянова

Poet, prose writer. Candidate of Philological Sciences. Member of the Union of Russian Writers. 

From 1992 to 1997, she studied at the Literature Faculty of Magnitogorsk State Pedagogical Institute (now a state university). From 1997 to 2000, she studied at the postgraduate school of Magnitogorsk State University at the Department of Russian Literature of the 20th Century. She defended her Candidate's dissertation. 

Since 2000, she has been teaching literature in grades 10-11 at the "Academic Lyceum". In 2008 she was elected senior lecturer, then associate professor at the Department of Russian Literature of the 20th Century at Magnitogorsk State University.

Under the editorship of T. Tayanova and M. Polekhina, the collection of scholarly articles "The Poetry of Magnitogorsk: An Experience in the Study of Regional Literature" was published in Magnitogorsk. 

Since 2008, she has been a regular contributor of film reviews in the community ilovecinema.ru