Lev Golinkin

Lev Golinkin is the author of “A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka.” A graduate of Boston College, Golinkin came to the U.S. as a child refugee from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov (now called Kharkiv) in 1990. His Op-Eds and essays on the Ukraine crisis have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe and Time.com, among others.