Credit: Kostiantyn Strilets
Larissa Babij
Larissa Babij, a Ukrainian-American translator and writer, is the author of A Kind of Refugee: The Story of an American Who Refused to Leave Ukraine (ibidem Press, 2024), based on her wartime writing on Substack. Her translations have appeared in numerous books and periodicals, including Asymptote, Evergreen Review, and Krytyka. She is a member of PEN Ukraine and editor of the London Ukrainian Review. Her co-translation with Helena Kernan of Maksym Kryvtsov’s collection Вірші з бійниці (Poems Through the Loophole) is forthcoming from Jantar Publishing in 2027, with support from PEN Translates. (updated 8/2026)
AGNI has published the following translation:
“If war”
Poetry by Maksym Kryvtsov • Translated from the Ukrainian by Larissa Babij