Olga Bragina
Olga Bragina: is well–known Ukrainian poet, prose writer and translator. Olga writes in Ukrainian and Russian. Born in Kyiv in 1982, she graduated from the Translation Department of Kyiv National Linguistic University and is a professional English translator and the author of seven published books. Her poetry has been published internationally.
Igor Bozhko
Igor Bozhko: born in 1937, is an artist, poet, screenwriter, musician, and composer. He is the author of Musical Vernissage, a collection of plays (1999). He is the author of several collections of poetry and the director of the Choven Gallery of Ukrainian Artists. He lives in Odessa.
Stansilav Belsky
Stansilav Belsky: born in Dnipropetrovsk (current day Dnipro) in 1976, a programmer in his day job, is a Russian language, Ukrainian poet. To this day he has published thirteen books of poetry in Russian, the latest being Friendly Conversations with Robots (2024).
Guest Editor Philip Nikolayev
Philip Nikolayev: is a poet living in Boston. He translates poetry from several languages, with a current focus on Ukraine. His works are published internationally, including such periodicals as Poetry, The Paris Review, Harvard Review, and Grand Street. His several collections of verse include Monkey Time (Wave Books; winner of the 2001 Verse Prize) and Letters from Aldenderry (Salt). He is coeditor–in–chief of Fulcrum: An Anthology of Poetry and Aestheticsand the translator of The Star of Dazzling Ecstasy, a volume of poetry by Alexander Pushkin (Tiptop Street, 2021).