Born and raised in New York City in a home steeped in Russian culture, Natalie Lardner has been writing poems for five decades. Her Russian mother used to sing a lullaby to her with lyrics by Lermontov and read poems and stories to her by Pushkin. She went to NYC public schools and graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Slavic Languages and Literatures. A love of movies, especially foreign and independent films, and an eagerness to see the world brought her work and adventures in more than thirty countries on five continents: waitressing while studying oboe in Florence, Italy; driving a yellow taxicab in NYC; film and video editing, sound recording, camerawork, and producing; Russian-English translation and interpreting; teaching French, Italian, and Russian to Americans, and English to speakers of other languages; and work as a Cruise Director on the Yangtze River. Currently, she teaches students, ages three through eighteen, as a substitute teacher in NYC public schools. She is the mother of two children, Emma Lardner Winn and Nicholas Lardner. This is Eden is her first poetry collection.

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