Vitaly Chernetsky is a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas. A native of Odesa, Ukraine, his translations into English include Yuri Andrukhovych's novels The Moscoviad and Twelve Circles, a volume of Andrukhovych's selected poems, Songs for a Dead Rooster, Zhdanovka by Ukrainian artist Alevtina Kakhidze, and two children's books by Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv, Sound and Sight.