Biografía del autor Dodona Kiziria, a native of Tbilisi, Georgia, received her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Indiana University. Now Professor Emerita, she taught Georgian language and culture, Russian literature, and Russian and East European cinema at Indiana University for more than thirty years. She has also taught Georgian at the University of Chicago and Duke University. In 2004, Kiziria was awarded honorary Georgian citizenship.