Leonid Zlobinsky is a Russian-language writer from Dnepropetrovsk (born in 1963). 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 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, as well as three volumes of The Facebook Book.