Literature researcher, critic, prose writer, lecturer in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. With his editing Russian translations of the works of John Crowley, Niel Gayman, Terry Pratchett. The author of books «The reality of the miracle» (about the writing of M. and S. Dyachenko), «Burial in the grave» (collection of folk legends about T. Shevchenko), «New Minotaur» (stories), the cycle of articles «Outside of the familiar fields» (about the pre-history of fantasy genre).