Translated from the Ukranian by Andrew Sheppard
This piece is part of our Winter 2022 print issue, available for purchase here.
Yulia Berezhko-Kaminska is a Ukrainian poet, journalist, editor, and the Secretary of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine in the field of the promotion of young writers. She is the author of eight volumes of original poetry and her work has been awarded a succession of literary prizes. She was born and grew up in the village of Chornobaivka in the Kherson region of Ukraine. More recently, her permanent residence has been in Bucha in the Kyiv region. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which within days particularly affected Bucha and other settlements north of Kyiv, she transferred, as a refugee, to Kraków, Poland.
Andrew Sheppard is the editor of East–West Review, the journal of the Great Britain–Russia Society, www.gbrussia.org/east-west-review. He is also the English translator of War Poems, by the Ukrainian poet Alexander Korotko, ISBN: 978-1914337956, and of The Big Fellow by Anastasiia Marsiz. Both are to be published in autumn 2022 by Glagoslav.
