Elena Laptinskaya was born in Orsha, Vitebsk region, Belarus. Her family moved from Orsha to Mogilev, and Elena graduated from secondary school and the Institute of Finance and Economics in Mogilev. Since 2009, she has lived and worked in Minsk. Elena began writing poetry in secondary school. She sees imagery and musicality as the most important qualities of poetry. Her poems were published in local publications in Belarus as well as in St. Petersburg anthologies such as “Limb”/”Helikon Plus”. Her first poetry collection “Razbeg” was published in Minsk in 2010 by Artia Group.