Myshkin is an American singer-songwriter, touring and recording artist, composer and producer. She sings and plays acoustic and electric guitar, tenor guitar, mandolin and other instruments solo, in cooperation with other artists, and with her band Myshkin's Ruby Warblers. She is a native of Indiana where she was born to parents recently immigrated form the Netherlands. After studying theater in college she moved to New Mexico, and then spent some time traveling the U.S.