Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Since 1998, Alexander has been living in Lübeck, northern Germany. He graduated from Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute with a degree in engineering. He participated in the cleanup efforts following the Chernobyl disaster. He began writing while still in Kharkiv, where several of his first poems were published. He began writing prose after moving to Germany. He has been published in children’s and adult literary magazines, including Siberian Lights, Nevsky Almanac, Northern Aurora, Altai, Nizhny Novgorod, Daryal, Sura, Koster, Kukumber, Chudesy i prykuydnya-detyam, and others. In 2009, several of his short stories were included in the Moscow Anthology of Russian Writers in Europe.