Volodymyr Yermolenko (born in 1980) is a Ukrainian philosopher, writer, journalist and author of several non-fiction and fiction books as well as of many articles and essays for Ukrainian and international media. He holds a doctoral degree in political studies from EHESS at Paris, and teaches at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He also works as Director of Analytics for Internews Ukraine and editor-in-chief of the site UkraineWorld.org that explains Ukrainian developments to a foreign audience in English.

Peter Pomerantsev is Director of the Arena Program at the London School of Economics.

"[The book] includes everyone from internationally renowned academics like Harvard’s Serhii Plokhiy to never-before-translated poets, that seek to articulate Ukraine to the wider world. [… It] gives Ukrainians a chance to explain their country themselves, and the Ukraine that emerges is uncannily relevant at a time when so many countries are undergoing identity crises—not least the United States."—Peter Pomerantsev, journalist, author, and TV producer, in The American Interest (January 2020)