People of the Donbas

Iya Kiva's poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages, and she herself translates contemporary Ukrainian poetry into Russian, as well as Belarusian and Polish poetry and essays into Russian and Ukrainian. She has received, among other regional honors, the Yuriy Kaplan Literary Award, the Metaphora Prize for Translation, and the Nestor Letopisets Award.

Maru Mushtrieva, the author of Book of Games and Services, a collection of performative scripts, is also a text and sound artist, curator, and translator.

Eugene Ostashevsky, a poet who teaches at New York University, has received the City of Münster Prize for European Poetry and the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association.