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Oksana Lutsyshyna

Oksana Lutsyshyna is a Ukrainian fiction writer and poet. She is the author of three poetry collections, a collection of short stories, and a novel. Lutsyshyna is also a lecturer in Ukrainian studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Oksana Lutsyshyna: Every wave is for you

by Oksana Lutsyshyna
Now it seems to me like I always knew Vika Amelina. This past week has been hellish – a mix of anticipation, knowing, and the impossibility of reconciling with this knowledge. How can I imagine life without her now? Where do I even begin? We met in 2014 in New York at a poetry reading organized by the Shevchenko Scientific Society. It is notable that later Vika would organize a literary festival at the town with the same name, but located in Ukraine, in Donetsk Oblast, not on the shore of the H