Irina Denezhkina was born in 1981 and lives in Yekaterinburg. Since the publication in 2002 of Give Me: Songs for Lovers, she has become a star in Russia and her book has become a bestseller. In 2005, she was runner up in the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and in 2008, she was the recipient of Romania's Ovid Festival Prize, awarded to a prominent young talent.
