Max Rosochinsky is a scholar, translator, and poet from Simferopol, Crimea. With Oksana Maksymchuk, he co-edited Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine, an anthology of contemporary poetry, and co-translated Lyuba Yakimchuk’s Apricots of Donbas and Marianna Kiyanovska’s The Voices of Babyn Yar.
Their translations have been published in literary journals and have been featured in dozens of venues, including The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Washington Post, and BBC and CBC Radio. Max earned his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. In recent years, Max was awarded fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University in Budapest, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, and the Polish Institute for Advanced Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. He is currently a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany.