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.

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03/01.2023: “Today Is A Different War” forthcoming from Arrowsmith Press

02/27/2023: In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine

11/12/2022: Marie Howe, Borys, and Lyudmyla Khersonsky on “For the Record: Conversations with Ukrainian Writers During War”

05/25/2022: Poem by Lyudmyla Khersonsky in the New York Times 

05/13/2022: Poem by Ludmila Khersonsky in the New Yorker

04/25/2022: Boris Khersonsky in Corriere della Sera