Poet, critic, literary historian, and translator from English and Yiddish. Author of eight poetry collections, 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 1965 in Kyiv; in 1986 he moved to Pushkin (also known as Tsarskoye Selo). Graduated from the Leningrad Finance and Economics Institute. In the mid-1980s he was part of the nonconformist art association “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 Gumilyov, and Mikhail Lomonosov; of the book The City of the OBERIUts; and of numerous articles and essays on poetry. He lives in St Petersburg.