An author of both creative nonfiction and popular fiction, ARTEM CHAPEYE was born and raised in the small Western Ukrainian city of Kolomyia and has spent much of the last twenty years living in Kyiv. He is the author of two novels and four books of creative nonfiction, is a co-author of a book of war reportage, and has four-times been a finalist of the BBC Book of the Year Award. Three of his books have been published in English, all by Seven Stories Press: The Ukraine (translated by Zenia H. Tompkins, 2024), Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns: Thoughts on War (Zenia H. Tompkins, 2025), and The Weathering: A Novel (Daisy Gibbons, 2026). The title story of his collection The Ukraine was excerpted in The New Yorker and received high praise. Artem is an avid traveler who spent close to two years living, working, and traveling in the U.S. and Central America—an experience that has greatly informed his writing. His work has been translated into seven languages and has appeared in English in the Best European Fiction anthology and in publications such as Refugees Worldwide, translated by Marian Schwartz. Artem is a past recipient of the Central European Initiative Fellowship for Writers in Residence (Slovenia) and the Paul Celan Fellowship for Translators (Austria), as well as a finalist of the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism. He serves on the board of PEN Ukraine. He has been a soldier in the Ukrainian army since the early days of the full-scale Russian invasion.
