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Lev Golinkin

Lev Golinkin

Lev Golinkin is the author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, Amazon's Debut of the Month and a Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers program selection.  Mr. Golinkin, a graduate of Boston College, came to the US 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; he has been interviewed by NPR, WSJ Live and HuffPost Live.  

A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, Doubleday 11/04/2014.  

Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program, November 2014 – January 2015

Amazon Debut of the Month, November 2014

Elle “Readers Prizeâ€Â selection, December 2014

A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, The New York Times


"Lev was a great speaker. Comfortable on stage and very connected to the freshmen mindset. "
-- Conchita Hickey, Texas A&M International University