Tkacz, Virlana: Three Wooden Trunks

Publisher Marketing: Virlana Tkacz is a literary translator and a scholar of Ukrainian modernism. She is the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, the National Theatre Translation Award, The Agni Review Poetry Translation Prize, and three NYSCA grants for her translations with Wanda Phipps. In 2020, their translation of poems by Serhiy Zhadan, What We Live For, What We Die For, was published by Yale University Press. She a theatre director and head of Yara Arts Group, a resident company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York City. She has created 37 original productions for Yara that have been performed in New York, Lviv, Kharkiv, Bishkek, Ulan Ude, and Ulaanbaatar, as well as China and Japan. Three Wooden Trunks is a collection of poems about memory and the poet’s Ukrainian roots, and of the poet’s family’s pursuit of a sweeter, easier life in America.