Juri Izdryk – writer, artist, musician; was born in Kalush, Ukraine, in 1962, and lives in Lviv, where he has edited the avant-garde literary journal Chetver since 1990. A prominent figure in Ukrainian alternative literature and culture, Izdryk is the author of four novels in Ukrainian: Wozzeck (1997), The Island of Krk and Other Stories (1998), Double Leon (2000), and AM™(2005). In 2011 he published a synthetic art-book «Underword», in 2013 – a collection of intimate lyrics “S”. Izdryks works are translated into Polish, English, Russian, German, Belarusian, Lithuanian, Italian, Czech, Croatian and Swedish.