Tamri Pkhakadze (born 1957 in Tbilisi) has a PhD in philology. Quite a few of her works have been staged in various theatres, among them Kitchen Gardening in a War Zone, which has been performed in four different cities. The author has read her own works on the Georgian radio programme The Golden Fund and she has several times given readings to military units. There has been a big emotional response at various meetings between the author and her readers and at her public readings.