Ukraine, War, Love

Olena Stiazhkina is a historian and award-winning Ukrainian writer and journalist. Her fiction, under the pen name Olena Iurska, includes short stories, novels, and detective stories. She was a professor of Slavic history at Donetsk National University until the occupation of the city, as well as at Mariupol State University. Having written almost exclusively in Russian before, Stiazhkina transitioned to writing in Ukrainian following the Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2014.

Anne O. Fisher is Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and a past president of the American Literary Translators Association.