Oksana Lutsyshyna is a Ukrainian poet, writer, literary scholar and translator, author of three novels; a collection of short stories; and five collections of poetry. She was awarded the Lviv City of Literature UNESCO Prize (2020) and the Taras Shevchenko National Award in fiction (2021) in Ukraine for her novel Ivan and Phoebe, now available in English. In the recent past, she worked as an Associate Professor in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2025 she was the Amy Clampitt Poet-in-Residence in Lenox, Massachusetts. Her present poems were crafted thanks to the support of this residency.
