Ksenia Rychtycka
Ksenia Rychtycka is a first-generation Ukrainian-American writer. Her chapbook A SKY FULL OF WINGS won the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award and the 2022 Best Book Award (American Book Fest) in the Poetry Chapbook category and was shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize. The book also was a da Vinci Eye winner for cover design and selected as a finalist in the 2020 New Women's Voices Chapbook competition (published by Finishing Line Press).
Her debut collection of short stories CROSSING THE BORDER was selected as a finalist in the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the category of Short Story - Fiction. Ksenia's work has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, The Literary Bohemian, Fusion Magazine, Ukrainian American Poets Respond, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.
Ksenia worked as an editor in Ukraine during the early years of the post-Soviet era. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago.
“When Luba was born, her parents named her after the Ukrainian word for love. Lubov. Moya Luba. Lubochka. Every letter Roman had ever written Luba started out with a different variation of her name.”