Goodbye, Isis

Katerina Sergatskova is an award-winning journalist, author, entrepreneur, and security trainer specializing in high-risk environments. She extensively reported on the war in Ukraine, Russian invasion, human rights violations in Eastern Europe, and war on the Islamic State in the Middle East.

Kate Tsurkan is an American writer, editor, and translator based in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. Her co-translation, with Yulia Lyubka, of State of War (Meridian Czernowitz), edited by Evgenia Lopata and Andriy Lyubka, received the 2025 Peterson Literary Fund Translated Book Award. She is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent, where she writes on culture and history and publishes the weekly newsletter Explaining Ukraine with Kate Tsurkan. In 2017 she co-founded Apofenie, an online magazine of Central and Eastern European literature in translation with a particular focus on contemporary Ukrainian writing. Her other book-length co-translations from the Ukrainian include Oleh Sentsov's Diary of a Hunger Striker, Myroslav Laiuk's Bakhmut, Andriy Lyubka's War from the Rear, and Khrystia Vengryniuk's Long Eyes. With Dmytro Kyyan she has translated Lyubko Deresh's Medusa's Gaze, forthcoming from Academic Studies Press. Her writing and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Harper's, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Trained as a scholar of nineteenth-century French literature at New York University, she works from Ukrainian, Russian, and French.