Yuliya Musakovska (1982, Ukraine) is an award-winning poet and translator from Lviv. She is the author of five poetry collections in Ukrainian, most recently The God of Freedom (2021), and a bi-lingual collection, Iron (2022), in Polish and Ukrainian. Her poems have been translated into over 20 languages. She has received numerous literary awards in Ukraine, including the prestigious Smoloskyp Poetry Award for young authors. Musakovska is a member of PEN Ukraine.
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A poem that seems to be caught in the wind by the roadside, glancing both ways: back to a dreamlike childhood and with hungry eyes to the future.
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