Hovhannes Tekgyozyan was born in Yerevan in 1974. He graduated from the State Institute of Theater and Cinema and has written short stories, novellas, plays, essays, screenplays, and two novels. He has won major prizes, including the Armenian-American IGEFA Prize for the best young writer, the Best Online Playwright Prize, the Vahan Tekeyan Prize, and the Grish Darbinyan Award.