Andrei Sen-Sen’kov was born in 1968 in Tajikistan. He is the author of twenty books of poetry and prose. He won the Andrei Belyi Prize in 2018 and in 2019 the Special Prize of Moskovskii Schet. A collection of his work in English, Anatomical Theater, won the PEN Center USA translation Award in 2015. Sen-Sen’kov’s work has been translated into thirty-one languages. He lives in Almaty.