Andriy Lyubka is a prize-winning Ukrainian poet, writer, and essayist and has published ten books of poetry, essays, travel writing, and fiction. Carbide is his debut novel.
Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler are a team of literary translators who work with Russian and Ukrainian. They are best known for their English renderings of prose by great contemporary Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan, including Voroshilovgrad, published by Deep Vellum, and Mesopotamia, published by Yale University Press.