Oksana Maksymchuk is a Ukrainian-American poet, scholar, and literary translator. Her translations have appeared in such venues as Modern Poetry in Translation, Words Without Borders, Poetry International, and Best European Fiction series from Dalkey Archive Press, while her translation of Lyuba Yakimchuk's "Prayer" was performed by the author at the 2022 Grammy Award Ceremony. She is co-editor of Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine, a NEH-winning anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry. She has just recently left Lviv, where she has been residing.

Here she is interviewed by Hans Ruprecht as part of his series, CKCU Literary News, where it first aired on 11 May 2022.