[close] Tatiana Boncompagni is a New York City-based writer. Her articles on beauty, fashion, shopping and social trends have appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, InStyle, Cookie and Vogue magazines.

Before becoming a freelance journalist in 2003, she worked for American Lawyer magazine in New York, the Legal Times in Washington D.C. and The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels.

Tatiana's first novel, Gilding Lily, will be published in 2008 by Avon Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers.

Tatiana graduated magna cum laude from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She has held prestigious internships at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the office of U.S. Congressman Jim Ramstad, CNN, and The Wall Street Journal. She is married and has two children. She enjoys cooking, reading, yoga, travel and taking care of her beloved Corgi. [close]