About Alex Averbuch: ALEX AVERBUCH is a poet, translator, and literary historian from the Novoaidar, Luhans’k region, in Ukraine. He is the author of three books of poetry and an array of literary translations from Hebrew, Ukrainian, English, and Russian. His poetry collection The Jewish King is forthcoming with Lost Horse Press in 2024. OKSANA MAKSYMCHUK is a Ukrainian American poet, scholar, and literary translator. Her poems appear in English in Agni, The Paris Review, The Poetry Review, and elsewhere, and she has published two poetry collection in Ukraine. With Max Rosochinsky, she co-edited Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine (Academic Studies, 2017) and co-translated the poetry collections Apricots of Donbas (Lost Horse, 2021), by Lyuba Yakimchuk, and The Voices of Babyn Yar (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2022) by Marianna Kiyanovska. Recently displaced from Lviv, Ukraine, she lives in Chicago. MAX ROSOCHINSKY is a poet, scholar, and literary translator. With Oksana Masksymchuk he has co-edited Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine (Academic Studies, 2017) and co-translated the poetry collections Apricots of Donbas (Lost Horse, 2021), by Lyuba Yakimchuk, and The Voices of Babyn Yar (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2022) by Marianna Kiyanovska.