Leonid Zlobinsky, born in 1963, is a Russian-language writer from Dnepropetrovsk. After graduating from the Mechanical Faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute, he worked as a design engineer at a metallurgical equipment plant, later attended graduate school at the same institute. In 1998, he emigrated to the Netherlands, where he lived until 2017. In 2017, he moved to Germany (Munich). He started writing in the late 1990s. Since then five of his books were published: a poetry collection, a collection of short stories, and three volumes of The Facebook Book.