Peter Sekirin was born in Kiev, Ukraine. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative and Russian Literature from the University of Toronto and has worked as a research associate at the Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES). He is the author of The Dostoevsky Archive and the translator of works by Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov. He lives in Aurora, Ontario, just north of Toronto, with his wife and two children.