Oksana Maksymchuk

Oksana Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian-American poet, scholar, and literary translator. Her debut English-language poetry collection Still City: Diary of an Invasion (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) was longlisted for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize and PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. 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, March 2026). Oksana holds a PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University.
(Updated 1/2026)