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Michael M. Naydan is the Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He has received numerous prizes for his translations, including the George S. N. Luckyj Award in Ukrainian Literature Translation from the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies. He has been writing about Ukrainian literature—and translating it—for WLT since 2005. His “Literary and Historical Sources for Understanding Ukraine” recommended reading list appeared in the July 2022 issue. He received the Outstanding Contribution to the Profession Award by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages in February 2024. His most recent book is a paperback edition of Ukrainian poet Bohdan Ihor Antonych’s Selected Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych: Ecstasies and Elegies (Bucknell University Press, 2024).