Dmitri Katsman was born in Moscow in 1980. When he was 11, his family moved to Israel where he grew up and served in the armor corps. After the military service he immigrated to Toronto where he lives to this day. Dmitri started writing since his youth. First he wrote movie reviews, which helped him to develop his own writing style, then switched to short stories, based on his personal experiences. His goal in writing is to describe the world around us as accurately as possible and make the reader contemplate why things the way they are.