Ksenia Buksha was born in 1983 into a family of chemical engineers. She graduated from Anitchkov Licee and then St. Petersburg State University with a degree in economics. She has worked in finance, marketing and advertising. Ksenia has been writing prose and poetry since early 2000s. Her first works were published by late A. Zhitinsky, a renown writer and publisher of Gelikon +. Ksenia has since published ten books. She lives in St. Petersburg with her husband and children.