Background
Gushchina was born on December 26, 1957 in Saint Petersburg.
Gushchina was born on December 26, 1957 in Saint Petersburg.
She graduated from the Philological Faculty of Voronezh State University (1980), Institute for Advanced Studies of Radio and Television Workers (Moscow, 1994).
In 1980-1981, she worked as a teacher of secondary school in Voronezh. In 1981-1983, she was a correspondent of the Voronezh Television. In 1983-1984, she was a literary employee of the newspaper "Mebelschik". In 1995-1998, she was an entrepreneur in Voronezh. In 1999-2000, she worked as an expert talk show on the channel TV-6 in Moscow. Since 2001, she has been working as a special correspondent of Novaya Gazeta in Moscow. Since the end of 2007, she has been the editor-in-chief of the Moscow publishing house Anagrama.