Selected Publications

‘She was the culture’: Kharkiv mourns 18-year-old artist killed in Russian attack (The Kyiv Independent, Sepember 2024)

Opinion: Having a child during wartime is terrifying, but it’s still worth it (The Kyiv Independent, June 2024)

Belarusian opposition working to create ‘alternative’ passport, safeguard exiles from Lukashenko regime (The Kyiv Independent, February 2024)

Is it ok to have fun during war? We asked Ukrainians (The Kyiv Independent, February 2024)

Understanding Zelensky’s decree on Russian lands ‘historically inhabited by Ukrainians' (The Kyiv Independent, February 2024)

Wartime memoir navigates loss and preserving memory of fallen soldiers (The Kyiv Independent, December 2023)

How Ukrainian identity evolved since the Revolution of Dignity (The Kyiv Independent, November 2023)

New Belarusian poetry collection explores revolution, exile, war (The Kyiv Independent, November 2023)

Two sisters capture the beauty of Ukraine’s villages before it’s gone (The Kyiv Independent, October 2023)

In Lukashenko’s Belarus, Belarusian culture is not welcome (The Kyiv Independent, July 2023)

One war, multitudes of pain (The Kyiv Independent, April 2023)

How a celebrated Ukrainian writer turned into a war crimes researcher (The Kyiv Independent, April 2023)

A review of Iuliia Mendel’s The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World (The Washington Post, September 2022)

Cancer in a time of war: the Kyiv oncologists dispensing refuge and hope (The Guardian, May 2022)

Why I Chose to Stay in Ukraine (The New Yorker, March 2022)

Diary from Ukraine: some days it is unbearable to read updates from Kharkiv (The New Statesman, March 2022)

How Ukrainian Authors Are Contributing to the War Effort (Literary Hub, March 2022)

The Rise and Fall of Foto & Video Magazine (Arrowsmith Press Journal, February 2022)

Letter from Chernivtsi: Ukraine’s ultimate literary capital (The Calvert Journal, September 2021)

A review of the novel The Wife Who Wasn’t by Alta Ifland (The Los Angeles Review of Books, June 2021)

Full CV available upon request.