Oksana Maksymchuk

Oksana Maksymchuk is the author of two Ukrainian-language poetry collections, Xenia and Lovy. In English, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Cincinnati Review, The Irish Times, The Poetry Review, and elsewhere. With Max Rosochinsky, she coedited Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine (Academic Studies Press, 2017), an anthology of contemporary Ukrainian war poetry. Winner of the Antonych and Smoloskyp prizes, two of Ukraine’s top awards for younger poets, she has been writer in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University. She lives in Lviv, Ukraine. (updated 10/2022)