Serhiy Zhadan is Ukraine's beloved literary and activist voice. He has received the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought, the German Peace Prize, and several international literature prizes. His previous books include Mesopotamia; The Orphanage; and What We Live For, What We Die For: Selected Poems. He lives in Kharkiv. Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler translate contemporary Ukrainian literature.