The Avenue

Dmitry Blizniuk is the author of The Red Fоrest (Fowlpox Press, 2018). His most recent poems have appeared in Poetry, Five Points, Rattle, Los Angeles Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Nation, Prairie Schooner, Plume, AGNI, The London Magazine, and elsewhere. He has received the RHINO Translation Prize, been runner-up in the Gregory O’Donoghue Competition, and been named a finalist for the Gabo Prize. Blizniuk, who lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine, is a volunteer with the European charity fund Chervona Kalyna, which supports refugees, internally displaced persons, large families, and the Ukrainian military. (updated 4/2026)

Sergey Gerasimov’s stories and poems written in English have appeared in Adbusters, Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, J Journal, The Bitter Oleander, Acumen, and elsewhere. His books include Feuerpanorama: Ein ukrainisches Kriegstagebuch (Fire Panorama: A Ukrainian War Diary; dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, 2022) and Oasis (Gypsy Shadow, 2018). He lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (updated 4/2026)