Olha Tytarenko is Senior Lector in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She has co-translated five books with Michael Naydan including Aleksandr Strashny's The Ukrainian Mentality: An Ethno-Psychological, Historical, and Comparative Exploration (ibidem Press, 2024), and Maria Matios' Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages (2019) and Yuri Vynnychuk's Tango of Death (2019), both with (Spuyten Duyvil Publishers).