Alexander Makarov-Krotkov

Alexander Makarov-Krotkov was born in 1959. He graduated from Moscow State Institute of Culture in 1982. His poetry started circulating in samizdat in the mid-80s. In 1989 his work was published in the famous Paris-based émigré journals Kontinent and Muleta. Since 1989 his work began to appear in literary magazines in his homeland. He published in a broad range of literary journals and anthologies both in Russia and abroad, in Russian as well as in translation into many languages. Alexander authored seven books of poems, won several literary prizes, and participated in many domestic and international festivals. He lives in Moscow.