OLENA JENNINGS

Olena is the author of the poetry collection The Age of Secrets (Lost Horse Press, 2022), the chapbook Memory Project, and the novel Temporary Shelter (Cervena Barva Press, 2021). She is a translator of Kateryna Kalytko's Nobody Knows Us Here, and We Don’t Know Anyone (Lost Horse Press, 2022) together with Oksana Lutsyshyna and Vasyl Makhno's Paper Bridge (Plamen Press, 2022). Her translation with the author of Yuliya Musakovska's collection God of Freedom is forthcoming from Arrowsmith Press. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and an MA from the University of Alberta. She is the founder and curator of the Poets of Queens reading series and press. (photo by Roman Turovsky)