Poet, critic, literary historian, and translator from English and Yiddish. Author of eight books of poetry, including Contract (2024), Dark Night (2020), Fish and Rivers (2016), and others. Winner of the Andrei Bely Prize (2018) in the “Criticism” category. Born in Kyiv in 1965, he moved to Pushkin (also known as Tsarskoye Selo) in 1986. Graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics. In the mid-1980s, he was part of the uncensored art association "Camera Obscura" ("Kamera khraneniya"). From 2002 to 2007, he taught a special course on contemporary poetry at St. Petersburg State University. Author of literary biographies of Daniil Kharms, Vladislav Khodasevich, Nikolai Gumilev, and Mikhail Lomonosov; of the book The City of the OBERIU Writers; and of numerous articles and essays on poetry. Lives in St. Petersburg.