"People are hungry for books, for their own history, for their own literature."

Oksana Lutsyshyna is a Ukrainian author and translator who currently serves as Associate Professor of Instruction in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. A native of Uzhhorod in Western Ukraine, she is the author of, among other works, the novels Ivan and Phoebe and Love Life as well as  the poetry collections Persephone Blues and Felicity's Poems. She has been the recipient of the Taras Shevchenko National Award in Fiction and the Lviv City of Literature UNESCO Prize and is a member of PEN Ukraine. We discussed Ukraine’s vibrant literary culture and the state of Ukraine in the shadow of Russia’s war there.