Emiliya Pesochyna was born in Kharkiv to a family of English teachers. She is a doctor of medicine. In 2001, Emiliya emigrated to Germany, where she works as a physician. She published four collections of poems; her poems and prose pieces have been published in many Russian-language literary magazines, such as “Etazhi”, “Vitrazhi”, “Artikl”, “Novy Zhurnal”, “Novy Svet”, “Lava”, “Novy Kontinent”, “Vremena”, and others. Her poems and prose are included in international anthologies of Russian poetry, such as “Emigrant Lyre”, “45th Parallel”, etc. Over 200 of her poems were set to music and recorded on discs. She is a laureate and finalist of the international literary contests “Emigrant Lyre”, “Russian Hoffman”, etc. Her poems appear in many anti-war anthologies.