Oksana Maksymchuk

Oksana Maksymchuk is the author of two award-winning books of poetry in the Ukrainian language, Xenia (2005) and Catch (2008). Her English-language poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner , Salamander , The Common , and elsewhere. Her translations have been featured in Words Without Borders , Poetry International , Modern Poetry in Translation , and elsewhere. With Max Rosochinsky, she co-edited Words for War: War Poems from Ukraine (Academic Studies Press, 2017). She won the 2004 Richmond Lattimore Prize for Poetic Translation and the 2014 Joseph Brodsky-Stephen Spender Prize. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment of the Humanities and the National Endowment of the Arts. Maksymchuk holds a PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University and has taught at Northwestern University and University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Photo by Natalya Mykhailychenko

Photo by Natalya Mykhailychenko