Born in Moscow, Polina Panassenko is an author, translator and actress. She was a 2018 laureate of the Ateliers Médicis, and 2020 laureate of the Maison Antoine Vitez and Talents Adami Théâtre. In 2015, she published Polina Grigorievna, an illustrated detective novel with Objet Livre. Tenir sa langue is her first novel.