ASKOLD MELNYCZUK is the author of four novels and the short story collection The Man Who Would Not Bow: And Other Stories. He is the founding editor of Agni and Arrowsmith Press, and co-editor of From Three Worlds, an anthology of Ukrainian writers, and Between Fury and Peace: The Many Arts of Derek Walcott. His fiction, poetry, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, the U.K.’s Times Literary Supplement, The Kenyon Review, and other publications.