Nadia Beard is a journalist, critic and pianist, and managing editor at Coda Story. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker, the FT, National Geographic, the Times Literary Supplement, and many others. She is a former Moscow Correspondent for The Independent, and is a graduate of University College London, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Tbilisi Conservatoire. She is also currently the programming director for ZEG: Tbilisi Storytelling Festival.