Sweet Darusya: A Tale Of Two Villages

Maria Matios is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, and official. She authored twelve volumes of fiction and poetry, including the novel Sweet Darusia, and the collections of stories titled The Short Life and Nation. She was the winner of the Book of the Year 2004 prize and of the Taras Shevchenko National Award in 2005.

Allyson Voller is a SAG-AFTRA actor based in Chicago. She's worked professionally for many years, in the Midwest theater, on-camera, improv, and voice-over community. Her work as a narrator has been recognized with finalist nominations in the Independent Audiobook Awards and the Audiobook Adrenaline Awards.

Michael Naydan is Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University and works primarily in the fields of Ukrainian and Russian literature and literary translation. He has published over fifty articles on literary topics and more than eighty translations in journals and anthologies.

Olha Tytarenko received her BA and MA in English from Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, Ukraine, her MA from The Pennsylvania State University, and her PhD from University of Toronto with a specialty in Russian literature. She is currently an assistant professor of practice of Russian at the University of Nebraska.