Astrid Lovell was born in 1997 in Prague’s Malá Strana quarter to Ukrainian parents who restored icons and Gothic interiors. She grew up among the city’s towering spires and legends of the Golem, learning to see familiar streets as places where old stories linger. This heritage shaped her narrative voice and drew her to romantic fantasy, where the landscapes of Old Europe open onto hidden worlds of magic.

Now living near the Vltava, Astrid writes in quiet cafés at dawn and takes evening walks through Prague to “hear the stories stones keep.” Fluent in Czech, English, and German, she draws on Eastern and Western traditions to create worlds in which desire, danger, and wonder inhabit the same streets.