Anuar Duisenbinov is a Kazakhstani poet, translator, arts organiser, curator, and multimedia artist. For the past 15 years, he has been actively engaged in artistic and publishing work in Central Asia. His poems have been published in renowned literary journals, such as Daktil, Helikopter, Literratura, Polutona, TextOnly, Solononeba, Asymptote, DOXA, Satori, and Satenai, and presented at literary festivals in Kazakhstan (Sozyv, Polifonia, TSE Art) and Latvia (Dzejas Dienas and Dzejnieka Asinis). 

As a translator, he held a residency at Literature Without Borders and contributed to numerous Russian to Kazakh translation projects. He has also been highly active internationally, participating in numerous poetry, music, and professional events, and collaborating with institutions such as Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, CTM Festival, ZOiS, Literarische Colloquium Berlin, Hayward Gallery, Slavs & Tatars, and the Venice Biennale among others. 

He is the co-founder of the poetry and music collective Балхаш снится – who create works based on his poetry and the music of Rustem Myrzakhmetov. Anuar writes in Russian and Kazakh, weaving a multilingual poetry that exemplifies the linguistic and thematic context of the emerging new literature of Kazakhstan.