Raisa Reznik was born in Odessa (1948). A poet and editor of Svyaz vremyon (Связь времен), an annual almanac of Russian poetry, Raisa graduated from the Vinnitsa Pedagogical Institute and taught English in schools in Ukraine and Moldova. She emigrated to the US in 1994. Her poetry books include Na kraiu (1997, a bilingual edition), O glavnom i vechnom (1997), and A Point of Support (1999). Her poetry was published in many Russian literary magazines such as Ural, Vstrechi, Poberezh’e, Den’ poezii, etc.