Irina Karenina was born in Nizhny Tagil. Graduated from the Literary Institute named after. A. M. Gorky. She worked as a proofreader, a fashion model, an administrator of a rock group, a dancer in a cabaret, translated technical literature from English, led a drama club in a Hare Krishna ashram, sang in a restaurant, wrote dissertations to order, was a director of an experimental theater, a model, a theater critic , press attache of the municipal administration, chief editor of business and glossy magazines. Author of 5 books of poetry. Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, laureate of the Znamya magazine award. Member of the Union of Journalists of Russia. Currently lives in Minsk, works as an editor at a news agency.