The U of A Program in Creative Writing and Translation in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is proud to welcome author Oksana Maksymchuk as its 2024-25 Walton Visiting Writer in Translation.

Maksymchuk will read from her work at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, in the Walker Room at the Fayetteville Public Library. The event is free and open to the public, and a Q & A and book signing with Maksymchuk will follow the reading.

Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian-American poet, scholar and literary translator. Her debut English-language poetry collection, Still City, is the 2024 Pitt Poetry Series selection, published by University of Pittsburgh Press (U.S.) and Carcanet Press (UK). Maksymchuk's poems appeared in The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, PN Review, The Poetry Review and many other journals. Maksymchuk holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Northwestern University. Born and raised in Lviv, Ukraine, she has also lived in Chicago, Philadelphia, Budapest, Berlin, Warsaw, and Fayetteville, Arkansas.  

Each year, the Walton Visiting Writers series in the Program in Creative Writing and Translation brings esteemed authors in poetry, fiction and literary translation to the U of A to give free public readings and to work with graduate students in the creative writing M.F.A. program.

Past Walton Visiting Writers include Robin Becker, Idra Novey, Kate Briggs, Brandon Hobson, Rachel Mennies, Jane Hirshfield and Kelli Jo Ford.

This event is made possible by the Program in Creative Writing and Translation, the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of English, the Walton Family Foundation, the Fayetteville Public Library and the James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professorship in Creative Writing.