Oksana Maksymchuk

Oksana Maksymchuk is a Ukrainian-American poet, scholar, and literary translator. Her debut English-language poetry collection Still City is forthcoming with Carcanet Press in 2024. Her poems appeared in The Paris Review, PN Review, The Poetry Review, and many other journals. 

With Max Rosochinsky, she co-edited a groundbreaking anthology Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine, and co-translated The Voices of Babyn Yar by Marianna Kiyanovska and Apricots of Donbas by Lyuba Yakimchuk. 

Oksana is a co-recipient of a National Endowments for the Arts Translation Fellowship, Scaglione Prize for Literary Translation from the Modern Language Association of America, Peterson Translated Book Award, and American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize. Her work has been featured on BBC Radio 3, CBC Radio, The Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and TEDx.

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. She currently teaches at the University of Chicago. 

Connect with her on social media @ok_maksymchuk and on her website www.oksanamaksymchuk.com