Vitaly Lekhtsier is a poet, literary critic, co-editor of the literary and analytical portal “Circus Olympus+TV” (2011-2022), and social researcher. He is the author of seven books of poetry (the eighth one is forthcoming), and seven monographs published in Russia and Lithuania. Winner of the Andrei Bely Prize (2019). His poems have been translated into English, and his scholarly research has been translated into Spanish and Bulgarian. He works at the S.P. Korolev National Research University in Samara.