Oksana Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian American poet, scholar, and literary translator. Her poetry appeared in Blackbird, Cincinnati Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals. Her manuscript Tongue Ties was a finalist for Tupelo Press’s Snowbound, Berkshire, and Dorset prizes, and individual poems and translations have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the co-translator of Apricots of Donbas, a collection of selected poems by Lyuba Yakimchuk, and The Voices of Babyn Yar, a book of poems by Marianna Kiyanovska.
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