Dmitry Biriukov, prose writer, essayist, and journalist, was born in 1979 in Novosibirsk and died in 2016. He was a graduate from Novosibirsk University and had taken a postgraduate course at the Institute of Philosophy and Law. He had also studied at the Literary Institute in Moscow. He had published stories and essays in literary journals in Siberia and in Moscow, and was the recipient of the Debut Prize for his short stories in 2005.