Oksana Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian American poet, scholar, and literary translator. Her debut English-language poetry collection, Still City, was the 2024 Pitt Poetry Series selection, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (US) and Carcanet Press (UK). She is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, Xenia and Lovy, in the Ukrainian. Read More Her poems have appeared in The Guardian, The Paris Review, The Poetry Review, and other journals. She co-edited an anthology, Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine, and co-translated several poetry collections. A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, the Scaglione Prize for Literary Translation from the Modern Language Association of America, and the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize, Oksana holds a PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University. Born and raised in Lviv, Ukraine, she has also lived in Chicago, Philadelphia, Budapest, Berlin, Warsaw, and Fayetteville, Arkansas.