Olena Jennings is an author and translator. She has published one poetry collection Songs from an Apartment, the chapbook Memory Project, and the novel Temporary Shelter, released in 2021 from Cervena Barva Press. Her translation of Vasyl Makhno's poetry collection Paper Bridge is forthcoming from Plamen Press. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and an MA from the University of Alberta. She is the founder and curator of the Poets of Queens reading series.
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