Lyuba Yakimchuk is an award-winning author of poetry, short stories, and screenplays. Oksana Maksymchuk is author of two collections of poetry, Xenia and Catch. Max Rosochinsky is a scholar, translator, and poet from Simferopol, Crimea. With Maksymchuk, he coedited Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine. Svetlana Lavochkina is a novelist, poet, and translator, and her latest novel in verse is Carbon.