Kateryna Mishchenko, born in 1984 in Poltava, Ukraine, is an essayist, translator and publisher. She has worked as an interpreter in the human rights and co-founded the magazine for literature, art and social criticism “Prostory”. Her essays have appeared in international magazines, anthologies and as a book: “Ukrainische Nacht/Ukrainian Night/Ukrajinska nitsch” (2015). Together with Katharina Raabe, she is the editor of “Aus dem Nebel des War: The Present of Ukraine” (Suhrkamp, 2023). She is working now as a Ukraine consultant at the project group Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. Currently she is a Berlin Fellow at the newly founded Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study.