Yuliya Musakovska is the author of five poetry collections in Ukrainian, most recently The God of Freedom (2021). Her poems have been translated into several languages, such as English, German, Spanish, Hebrew, Polish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, and Estonian. A translator of contemporary Ukrainian poetry into English, she has received numerous literary awards, including Krok Publishing House’s DICTUM Prize, the Smoloskyp Poetry Award, and the Ostroh Academy Vytoky Award. She lives in the city where she was born, Lviv, Ukraine. (updated 4/2022)

Read Musakovska’s entry in AGNI’s “Dispatches from Ukraine.”