Ruska Jorjoliani (born in 1985 in Mestia), in the early 1990s, the family fled ethnic cleansing to Tbilisi, where Ruska Jorjoliani attended the Italian high school after regular stays with a host family in Palermo. She graduated in philosophy from University  in Palermo . She won  a literature competition with  poems written in Italian and after this  she decided  to write her first novel, "Your Being Here As City (2016), in Italian - with Boris Pasternak's words from his poem as the title.