Kateryna Babkina is a Ukrainian poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Her book My Grandfather Danced the Best published in Polish won the Angelus Central European Literature Award in 2021. Her writings have been translated into English, Swedish, Polish, German, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Romanian, Czech, and Chinese. Her plays have been staged in Kyiv, Vienna, and Geneva. She has written columns for Esquire Ukraine, Le Monde, and Harper’s Bazaar. Her poems have been published in several anthologies and almanacs, including The Kenyon Review (USA), Poem (UK), Washington Square Review. Several short movies have been made on Babkina’s stories, one of them screened at Cannes Film Festival in Young Director’s selection.