Svetlana Vasilievna Kekova was born in 1951 on Sakhalin in the family of a military man. In childhood and youth she lived in Tambov. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Saratov State University (1973). She was published in samizdat magazines in Leningrad (“Clocks”, “Obvodny Canal”) and Saratov (“Counterpoint”). Author of more than ten books of poems and three books of literary criticism. She published a lot in Znamya: “Short Letters” (No. 4, 1997); "Lilies of Chalcedon" (No. 7, 1998); “The Frost of Christmas,” (No. 1, 2000); "Soldier's Grass" (No. 8, 2000); “According to new drawings” (No. 11, 2001); “Colored Triodion” (No. 4, 2001); “The Restless Garden” (No. 5, 2002); “Constellation of Sleeping Children” (No. 7, 2003); “Shadows of Flying Birds” (No. 8, 2004); “Sick Gold” (No. 10, 2005); “Music of Christmas” (No. 4, 2015). Lives in Saratov.