Gari Light was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1967. He has lived in the United States since 1980. Since graduating from Northwestern University and becoming a lawyer, he has worked in the area of international jurisprudence, both in the U.S and abroad. Light’s several books of poetry were published in Russian, starting in 1992. His English-language poetry book, entitled Confluences, appeared in both the U.S. and Europe in 2020. Gari’s work is regularly published in literary magazines and takes part in poetry readings on both sides of the Atlantic.