Alla Gorbunova has published seven books of poetry and six books of prose. Her novel It's the End of the World, My Love, was awarded the NOS Prize, and the poetry collection Inside Starfall received the Andrey Bely Prize. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages.

Elina Alter is a writer and the translator of Alla Gorbunova's It's the End of the World, My Love. Her other translations include Oksana Vasyakina's Wound and Steppe.