Irina Vasilyevna Vasilkova - poet, prose writer, literature teacher. Graduated from the Faculty of Geology of Moscow State University, the Gorky Literary Institute and the University of the Russian Academy of Education. In 1971–1990. worked at the Department of Geochemistry of Moscow State University, since 1990 she has worked as a literature teacher at school and runs a children's literary studio. Published in the magazines “New World”, “October”, “Znamya”, “Friendship of Peoples”.