The Way You Want It (Novel), Brooklyn, NY
The Way You Want It is a story of Maya, an emerging film director in present-day Russia navigating the intersections of art, politics, and personal identity.
“I hope to humanize the experiences of people living under oppressive regimes and promote conversations about universal themes of justice, freedom, and human rights.”
Svetlana Satchkova is a NYC-based writer and journalist. Raised in Moscow, she published three novels in her native Russian and writes in English as her second language. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College, where she was a Truman Capote fellow and won the Himan Brown Award. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in LARB, the Southern Humanities Review, Newsweek, the Independent, the Evergreen Review, the Rumpus, Catapult, and elsewhere.
Visit Svetlana’s website: satchkova.com