Larissa Babij is a Ukrainian-American writer, translator, and dancer based in Kyiv, Ukraine, since 2005. She holds a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, USA, and an MA in Cultural Studies from the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” in Ukraine. She is also a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education. Her writing has appeared in The Evergreen Review, Arrowsmith Journal, The Odessa Review, Springerin, and other publications. She reports on living in Ukraine at war and participating in the country’s civic-military defense at a Kind of Refugee (see https://akindofrefugee2022.substack.com/).

Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Vladislav Davidzon studied Intellectual History and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York and holds a Master’s degree in Human Rights from the Global Campus EMA program in Venice. He has been reporting on Ukrainian Jewish life for Tablet Magazine since 2012; he is the founding editor of The Odessa Review. Davidzon’s articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, and Bookforum Magazine. Davidzon is a fellow at the Atlantic Council and the author of Jewish-Ukrainian Relations and the Birth of a Political Nation (ibidem Press, 2023) and From Odessa With Love (Academica Press, 2021). He lives in Paris.