Ksenia Rychtycka is a poet and fiction writer whose Ukrainian heritage is often highlighted in her creative work. Her poetry chapbook A Sky Full of Wings was selected as a finalist in the 2020 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition and was published by Finishing Line Press. Her story collection Crossing The Border was a finalist in the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Ksenia’s work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Alaska Quarterly Review, The Dalhousie Review, The Literary Bohemian, Yellow Medicine Review, The Wisconsin Review and Hubbub. Ksenia worked as an editor in Ukraine during the early years of the post-Soviet era, an experience which has inspired her literary work. She has backpacked through twelve countries in Europe, and after sojourns in Chicago and Kyiv, Ukraine, resides with her family in the Detroit metro area where she was raised. She has a Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Wayne State University.

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