I am from a small town in Northeast Kansas and I am currently working on my master’s degree in political science at the University of Kansas. I first started learning about Eastern Europe from some of my extended family who immigrated from Poland and I decided to study Eastern Europe as an undergraduate. I learned Ukrainian and studied in L’viv for a summer and I became interested in Ukrainian and Russian literature. Mostly, I have read 19th-century authors, but I am also interested in 20th-century political commentary and satire.