Vladimir Efroimson was born in Moscow in 1950. He has lived in the United States since 1993. A mathematician by education, he has worked in computational mathematics, mathematical oceanography, software development, and financial risk analysis. He has been writing poetry since the early 1970s. He was a member of the Moscow Poetry Club. His poems have appeared in literary journals, including Oktyabr, Znamya, Vestnik Evropy, Druzhba Narodov, Interpoezia, The New Review (Novyi Zhurnal), Etazhi, and Artikl, as well as in almanacs and anthologies. He is the author of three books of poetry.