Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, translator, and playwright. He is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Cornelia Street Café: New and Selected Poems (Kyiv, Fakt, 2007) and most recently Thread and Selected New York Poems (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009). He has also published a book of essays, The Gertrude Stein Memorial Cultural and Recreation Park (2006), and two plays, Coney Island (2006) and Bitch/Beach Generation (2007). In English, his poems have appeared in AGNI and Absinthe. (updated 7/2009)