Irina Evsa is a poet, translator, author of fourteen books of poetry. Winner of the awards of the International Fund in Memory of Boris Chichibabin (2000), the festival "Cultural Hero of the XXI century" (2002), "People''s Recognition" (2004), the Russian Prize (2016), the Voloshin Prize (2016), the prize of the festival "Kiev Laurels" (2018), the special prize "Moscow Account".She was born and lives in Kharkiv.