Maksymchuk, Oksana

Oksana Maksymchuk, born 1982 and raised in Lviv, Ukraine, is a bilingual Ukrainian-American poet, scholar, and literary translator. She is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, „Xenia“ (Piramida Publishers 2005) and „Lovy“ (Smoloskyp Press 2008), in the Ukrainian. Her debut English-language poetry collection „Still City“ is the 2024 Pitt Poetry Series selection, forthcoming with University of Pittsburgh Press (USA) and Carcanet Press (UK). Maksymchuk co-edited an anthology “Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine” (Academic Studies Press/Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute 2017) and co-translated several poetry collections. She is a recipient of the National Endowments for the Arts Translation Fellowship, the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize, and other honors. Maksymchuk holds a PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago.