Alexey Alexandrovich Oleynikov. Writer, poet. He writes contemporary prose, science fiction, children's literature, essays, and poetry. He grew up in northwestern Moscow, where he still lives. His maternal relatives come from the Stavropol region, and the author’s childhood was spent in those parts. Later, those childhood impressions became the basis of his first book, Velkino Detstvo (“Velka’s Childhood”). He studied successively at three Moscow schools, after which he entered the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI), Faculty No. 6 (Aerospace). He left after his fourth year, tired of structural mechanics. His first literary attempts date back to his school years and, fortunately, have not survived. His first publications appeared in the magazine Porog (“Threshold”) (the story “Mariam Dances,” 2001; “The Man by the Water,” 2002) and in the newspaper Fantast (the story “Mariam Dances,” 2001). In 2001, he entered the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute, in the prose department, and graduated in 2007. In 2010, the book Battle Avatar was published by Astrel in the series Science Fiction of the Present and Future (a title the author has still not been fond of). That same year, The Mystery of the Ice Chimera was published by Eksmo—the first book in the Jenny Dolphin and the Magic of the Elements series. Winner of the 2011 New Children's Book award.