supported by the Joseph Brodsky Fellowship Fund

Lyudmyla Khersonska is the author of four poetry books. A Russophone poet, she has spoken about Russia’s war in Ukraine and read her poetry about the war many times. Her poems have been translated into Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and German; she has read in Moscow, Kyiv, Lviv, Munich, and New York. Her book Tyl’naia-litsevaia includes reflections on Russian aggression in Ukraine. Khersonska translates English-language poets such as Vladimir Nabokov and Seamus Heaney into Russian. She has resided at the Castle with her husband Borys since March 2022 when the war began in Ukraine.