Oksana Maksymchuk

Oksana Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian-American poet, scholar, and literary translator. Her debut English-language poetry collection Still City is the 2024 Pitt Poetry Series selection, published by University of Pittsburgh Press (US) and Carcanet Press (UK). She is also the author of two award-winning poetry collections, Xenia (Pyramid, 2005) and Lovy (Smoloskyp, 2008), in Ukrainian. She co-edited the anthology “Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine” (Academic Studies Press, 2017) and co-translated several poetry collections, most recently Alex Averbuch’s Furious Harvests (Harvard University Press, 2025). She is a recipient of the National Endowments for the Arts Translation Fellowship (2019), the Scaglione Prize for Literary Translation from the Modern Language Association (2024), and other honors. Oksana holds a PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University.