She was born on 9 July 1975 in a Jewish family in Dnipropetrovsk, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (now Dnipro in Ukraine).

[6] At that period she translated works of Etgar Keret and Vytautas Pliura (with Stanislav Lvovsky).

[7] She is a regular contributor to the magazines Teoriya Modi (‘Fashion Theory’), New Literary Review, she also has a column on the cultural studies of contemporary costume in the newspaper Vedomosti.

In the scenes, the protagonist encounters his imaginary friends, their dialogs are full of sad irony and ‘touching cynicism’.

[11] She is a vocal opponent to Vladimir Putin's regime and to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.