Patrick John Corness is an award-winning literary translator from Czech, German, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian; he holds a PhD in Literary Translation Studies from the University of Warwick. From 2014 to 2023 he was Visiting Professor of Translation at Coventry University, England. 

Dr Corness is a regular contributor to Ukrainian Literature, a Journal of Translations and his published translations from Ukrainian include short stories by Kseniya Dmytrenko, Otar Dovzhenko, Vasyl Gabor, Oleh Hovda, Eugenia Kononenko, Volodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko and Oleksandr Zhovna and the novella A Russian Story by Eugenia Kononenko. His scholarly bilingual edition of Lesia Ukrainka’s fantasy drama in verse The Song of the Forest was published by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies in 2021.