Sasha Rudensky was born in Moscow, Russia in 1979. She immigrated to the United States with her family in 1990. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2001 with a degree in Studio Art and Russian Studies. She has been the recipient of multiple awards and her work has been exhibited nationally. In 2004 she received the Mortimer-Hays Brandeis Traveling Fellowship, which resulted in the series Remains. For the last 2 years Sasha has been teaching photography at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT as a Visiting Instructor. She is currently enrolled in the MFA program in photography at Yale University.