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ARTEM CHEKH is a Ukrainian author and soldier. He is the author of some sixteen books, including Absolute Zero, and his work has been translated into English, Polish, Czech, and Russian. Chekh is currently serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. OLENA JENNINGS is the author of the poetry collection The Age of Secrets (Lost Horse Press, 2022) and the novel Temporary Shelter (Cervena Barva Press, 2021). Her translation with the author of Yuliya Musakovska's poetry collection The God of Freedom is forthcoming from Arrowsmith Press. OKSANA ROSENBLUM is an art history researcher and translator based in New York City. She was born and raised in Ukraine but has called NYC her home since 2003. Her poetry translations from Ukrainian, essays, and book reviews appeared in National Translation Month, Versopolis, Ukrainian Weekly, Asymptote, Bracken, and Arrowsmith. She co-edited a bilingual volume of the early poetry of Mykola Bazhan, an important and prolific 20th-century Ukrainian poet (Academic Studies Press, 2020).
“'He’s like a guide… to the kingdom of the dead,' someone says, early on, of one of Rock, Paper, Grenade's many unforgettable characters. And Rock, Paper, Grenade is, in its own inimitable way, also a kind of guide—not to the kingdom of the dead, but to the blazing anti-kingdom of the living: not the story of kings, despots or heroes, but the story of soldiers and drunks, neighbors and grandmothers, starving dogs and beloved poisoned cats, in all their mortal vulnerability and complexity. A tender, sharply-imagined coming-of-age novel, full of clarity and bleak humor: a book as shrewd about historical damage as it is about personal repair; as piercing about post-Soviet loneliness as it is about our most ancient pull to salvage and connect. A funny, haunting and beautiful book.” —Elaine Castillo, author of America Is Not the Heart and forthcoming novel Moderation (summer 2025)
