Documenting Atrocity in Poetry: a conversation with Oksana Maksymchuk

is a bilingual Ukrainian-American poet, scholar, and literary translator. Her debut English-language poetry collection Still City: Diary of the Invasion came out with Carcanet Press in May 2024. She is also the author of two award-winning poetry collections, Xenia and Lovy, in the Ukrainian. Oksana’s poems appeared in The Guardian, The Irish Times, The London Magazine, The Paris Review, PN Review, The Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She co-edited an anthology Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine, and co-translated several poetry collections. Oksana is a recipient of the National Endowments for the Arts Translation Fellowship, the Scaglione Prize for Literary Translation from the Modern Language Association of America, the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize, and other honors. She holds a PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University. In recent years, Oksana has been dividing her time between her home in Lviv, the United States, and Europe.