Sana Krasikov is the author of The Patriots (out 1/24/17 from Penguin Random House) and the story collection One More Year, which was named a finalist for the 2009 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the New York Public Library's Young Lions' Fiction Award, received a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award, and won the 2009 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Born in Ukraine, Sana grew up in the former Soviet republic of Georgia and New York, where she currently lives with her husband and their two children.