Sergey Gandlevsky - poet, prose writer, essayist. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. He worked as a school teacher, tour guide, stagehand, night watchman; Currently, he is the editor of the journal “Foreign Literature”. From the age of eighteen he wrote poems, which until the second half of the 80s were published abroad in emigrant publications, and since the late 80s they have been published in Russia. Winner of many literary awards, including the “Small Booker”, “Northern Palmyra”, Apollo Grigoriev, “Moscow Account”, “Poet”. Scholarship holder of the “POESIE UND FREIHEIT EV” foundation. Participant of poetry festivals and performances in Austria, England, Germany, USA, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine, Lithuania, Japan. S. Gandlevsky's poems have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, Polish, Lithuanian and Japanese. Prose - in English, French, German and Slovak. The book includes poems written from 1973 to 2012.