Herman Lukomnikov was born in 1962 in Baku and has lived in Moscow since 1975. Since 1990, he has performed texts and performances. His first published poems appeared in “The Humanitarian Fund” newspaper. He participated in festivals and had palindrome pieces published in
anthologies. He was the winner of the Russian-Ukrainian Poetry Slam in Lviv (2007) and the All-Russian Slam in Voronezh (2014) and vice-champion of the World Slam in Paris (2015). He played the Fool in D. Krymov’s play “Boris” based on Pushkin’s “Boris Godunov”. He has authored 19 published books of poetry. His poems were also published in “Samizdat Veka” (an anthology), “Poems of the Last Time” (an anthology), as well as in major Russian magazines such as “Znamya,” “Volga,” “Ogonyok,” “New Literary Review,” “Vozdukh,” “Solo,” etc. His poems have been translated into 14 languages.