Aneliya Avtandilova is a cross-media artist working between text, sound, and moving image.
A Bard College graduate and former British Council and Goethe-Institut music fellow, she began her creative practice as the leader of the doom-pop band Chkbns, featured on BBC Radio, The Clash, KEXP, SXSW, and The Great Escape, before shifting her focus toward writing and hybrid narrative forms.

She has published books of fairy tales in her native Russian, directed music videos, staged experimental comedy, written scripts for feature films and animation, and presented poetry performances.

Aneliya’s current focus is on exploring how text/narrative can be reclaimed as a site of belonging—an inquiry shaped by her experience as an immigrant and language-shift descendant.

Living between the UK and Bulgaria, outside her artistic practice, she photographs, joins experimental music jams, and makes crêpes.