Поэт, прозаик, критик. Родилась в 1975 году в Днепропетровске, с 1989 г. в Израиле – окончила Беэр-Шевский универсистет по специальности Computer Science, работала в области высоких технологий. В конце 90-х выступает как поэт и как журналист (постоянный автор "Книжного обозрения", "Русского журнала", ряда глянцевых изданий). С 2001 г. живет и работает в Москве. Автор двух романов ("Нет", в соавторстве с Сергеем Кузнецовым, и "Половина неба", в соавторстве со Станиславом Львовским), двух сборников короткой прозы, документальной книги "Полая женщина" (о кукле Барби). Лауреат молодежной премии "Триумф" (2003). Линор Горалик From Wikipedia: She was born on 9 July 1975 in Dnepropetrovsk, East Ukraine, in a Jewish family.[1] From 1982 to 1986 she studied in school # 67, and from 1987 to 1989 in school # 23.[2] From 1989 she has been residing in Israel where she studied computer science in 1991—1994 at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba. Since early 2000s she is working in Moscow as an author, journalist and business analyst.[3] She has also translated works of Etgar Keret and Vytautas Pliura (with Stanislav Lvovsky), organized several art exhibitions and projects.

Макс Фрай "Max Frei" is a pen-name of Svetlana Martynchik. She has created the well-known Echo series. Svetlana Yuryevna Martynchik is a Russian writer and artist. Martynchik studied at the philological department of Odessa State University, but dropped out without graduating. Martynchik lived in Moscow since 1993 and lives in Vilnius since 2004. For more details see Wikipedia: Svetlana Martynchik