Evgeny Nikitin was born in Riscani, Moldova (1981). He is a poet, prose writer, translator, and critic. He emigrated from Moldova to Germany with his parents in 1997, moved to Moscow in 2003, and to Israel in 2019. The experience of three emigrations is one of the main themes of his prose. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University. He worked as a teacher, editor of a publishing house, editor of literary magazines, curator of creative projects, specialist in e-learning. His work has appeared in major Russian literary magazines, such as Novyi Mir, Vozdukh, Textonly, Znamya, Zerkalo, Dvoetochie, ROAR, etc. His collections of poetry include Sketches in the Wind (2005), Invisible Lens (2009), Stand-up Lyrics (2015), Parentheses (2022). Collections of stories: Eastern Seventeen (2011, co-authored with Alena Churbanova) and About Dad (2019). About Dad won second place in the “readers’ choice” category of the NOS award 2019. He won many awards, including “Furious Vissarion” in 2021. Evgeny raises a child with autism and cerebral palsy; his day job is eldercare.