Born in 1959 in Tbilisi Mamuka Kherkheulidze studied in the Journalism Department of Tbilisi State University and has worked as a television and radio reporter as well as a print journalist. He has also worked in the Lexicology Department of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. He writes short stories and has published a collection of these. One of his short stories formed the basis for the 2010 Georgian film Street Days.