Khrystia Vengryniuk is an award-winning writer, literary critic, and painter from Chernivtsi. She is the author of the novel The Hamlet Called America, the poetry collections Long Eyes and About My Old White Drake, the short story collection To Be Born and Die In Shoes, and multiple children’s books. Her work appears in many literary anthologies. She is the co-founder of Chorni Vivtsi, one of Ukraine’s leading publishing houses for children. Her work has appeared in English translation in Asymptote, The Translation Review, La Piccioletta Barca, Guernica, Trafika Europe, The Dewdrop, and Apofenie. Her work has also been translated into several other languages, including Polish, German, Bulgarian, and Croatian.
Dmytro Kyyan is a Ukrainian-American writer, editor, and translator originally from Kharkiv. From the 1990s to the early aughts he was the editor-in-chief of Foto & Video Magazine and under his direction, it became the leading publication in photography throughout Eastern Europe. His co-translation with Kate Tsurkan of Oleh Sentsov’s Diary of a Hunger Striker was published by Deep Vellum in 2024.
Kate Tsurkan is a reporter at The Kyiv Independent where she writes mainly about culture- related topics. Her writing and translations have also appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harpers, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and elsewhere. She is the founding editor of Apofenie.
