Marina Pesenti is a UK-based cultural practitioner and analyst, with focus on cultural diplomacy and soft power. She is a former Director of Ukrainian Institute London and a former member of the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Institute. Marina is a former BBC World Service journalist where she produced radio programmes for the Ukrainian-speaking audience.

Marina Sapritsky-Nahum is a social anthropologist based in London, UK. She is Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London. She is also affiliated with the European Center for Jewish Music in Hanover, where she is currently conducting research on Ukrainian Jewish cultural heritage.

Ilya Kaminsky’s poems have been translated into over twenty languages. His prizes and awards include The Los Angeles Times Book Award, The National Jewish Book Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, the Academy of American Poets’ Fellowship and an NEA Fellowship.