Irina Flowers was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia, but spent most of her childhood in a small town in Siberia. After returning to Chelyabinsk, she studied journalism, worked as a reporter, and eventually moved to the United States. Here, she worked as a multimedia designer while writing in her spare time. She released her second novel, The System in 2026. Flowers is also a poet and translates Russian poetry. She writes under the pen name Eva Boris.