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Yuri Andrukhovych is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, essayist, and translator who has published five poetry books in Ukrainian. His selected poems in English include Songs for a Dead Rooster (Lost Horse Press, 2018) and Set Change (forthcoming from NYRB Poets). His prose works include the novels Recreations (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1998), The Moscoviad (Spuyten Duyvil, 2008), Perverzion (Northwestern University Press, 2005), Twelve Circles (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015), Таємниця. Замість роману (The Secret. Instead of a Novel; Folio, 2007), Коханці юстиції (Lovers of Justice; Meridian Czernowitz, 2018), and Радіо Ніч (Radio Night; Meridian Czernowitz, 2021). Andrukhovych’s selected literary essays in English translation are collected in My Final Territory (University of Toronto Press, 2018). His books have been translated and published in twenty-two languages. Andrukhovych is a laureate of prestigious international literary awards including the Herder Prize (2001), Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize (2005), Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding (2006), Angelus Award (2006), Hannah Arendt Prize (2014), Vilenica International Literary Prize (2014), and Heinrich Heine Prize (2022).

John Hennessy is the author of three collections: Exit Garden State (forthcoming from Lost Horse Press), Coney Island Pilgrims (Ashland Poetry Press, 2013), and Bridge and Tunnel (Turning Point, 2007). His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2024, The Believer, The New Republic, Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Yale Review. With Ostap Kin he is the translator of A New Orthography (Lost Horse Press, 2020)—selected poems by Serhiy Zhadan, finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and co-winner of the Derek Walcott Prize—the anthology Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond (Harvard University Press, 2023), and Set Change, selected poems by Yuri Andrukhovych (forthcoming from NYRB Poets). Hennessy is the poetry editor of The Common and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Ostap Kin  is the editor of Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond and New York Elegies: Ukrainian Poems on the City (Academic Studies Press, 2019), which won the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Prize for Best Translation. He is the translator, with John Hennessy, of Yuri Andrukhovych’s Set Change, Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond and Serhiy Zhadan’s A New Orthography. He translated, with Vitaly Chernetsky, Yuri Andrukhovych’s Songs for a Dead Rooster (Lost Horse Press, 2018). He’s pursuing a PhD in Slavic languages and literatures at Stanford University. .