Olena Jennings (1979, United States) is an author and translator. She has published one poetry collection Songs from an Apartment, the chapbook Memory Project, and the novel Temporary Shelter, released in 2021 from Cervena Barva Press. Oksana Lutsyshyna (1979, Ukraine) is a writer and translator, and a lecturer in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She has published three novels, a short-story collection, and four collections of poems in Ukrainian. Her novel Ivan and Phoebe won the Lviv City of Literature UNESCO Prize and Taras Shevchenko National Prize in fiction.
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