Ilya Danishevsky was born in Moscow in 1990. He studied history of religion at the Russian State Humanitarian University and is also a graduate of the Moscow Literature Institute. He is the editor-in-chief of the Anhedonia book project (AST Publishing House), dedicated to the study of institutions of violence in modern Russia, and curator of the Snob.ru literary section. He writes poetry and prose, lives and works in Moscow. In German, his book "Mannelig in Ketten" was published by ciconia ciconia Verlag, translated by Anja Schloßberger, with drawings by Tanya Pioniker.