The Tears and Smiles of Things

Andriy Sodomora is a Ukrainian translator, writer, and professor of Classics at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine. His translation oeuvre includes an astounding number of volumes from ancient Greek and Roman authors. At the age of 85, Sodomora remains extremely prolific, successfully combining translation and creative writing.

Roman Ivashkiv is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Alabama. He researches transmesis (i.e., fictional representation of translation and translators) in contemporary Ukrainian literature. With Canadian writer Erín Moure, he published an English translation of the Ukrainian writer Yuri Izdryk’s poetry collection entitled Smokes (2019).

Sabrina Jaszi is a writer and literary translator. She co-founded Turkoslavia, a translators' collective and journal of Turkic and Slavic literature. Her translations include the works of Reed Grachev, O'tkir Hoshimov, Nadezhda Teffi, Alisa Ganieva, and Semyon Lipkin.

Markiyan Dombrovskyi is a Ukrainian classical philologist at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. He researches classical literature (works on Latin elegy, especially Tibullus, Greek epigram etc), as well as Neo-Latin epigraphy in Ukraine. He also translates early modern Ukrainian historical sources written in Latin.