Vasyl is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, essayist, and translator. He is the author of thirteen collections of poetry and most recently A Poet, the Ocean, and Fish (2019). He has also published a book of short stories and four books of essays. His writing is widely translated in many languages. Collections of poetry, prose and essay books have appeared in Poland, Serbia, Israel, Romania, and in the US. He is the 2013 recipient of Serbia’s Povele Morave Prize in Poetry and received the 2015 BBC Book of the Year Award. Makhno currently lives in New York City.
Olena is the author of poetry chapbooks Songs from an Apartment and Memory Project. Her translation from Ukrainian of Iryna Shuvalova’s poetry collection, Pray to the Empty Wells, in collaboration with the author, was released in 2019 by Lost Horse Press.
