On the Move

Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv are a husband-and-wife team of artists who collaborate on books and other projects through their art studio Agrafka. They were both born in Ukraine in 1984 and studied at the Lviv Art College of Decorative and Applied Art. The pair have been members of PEN Ukraine since 2019 and live and work in Lviv, Ukraine. Their picture book How War Changed Rondo, also published by Enchanted Lion, was a Kirkus Best Book of 2021, a USBBY Outstanding International Book of 2022, and a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of 2022. Oksana Lushchevska is a Ukrainian writer and translator. She is the author of over 40 children’s and young adult books, which have received several Ukrainian children’s literature awards and have been included in the White Ravens Catalog and shortlisted for the BBC Ukraine Children’s Book Award. Oksana has a PhD in education and previously taught children’s literature courses at the University of Georgia. Now, she lives in Pennsylvania and is both an author and a children’s literature consultant.