Ksenia Rychtycka is an award-winning Ukrainian-American fiction writer and poet. She has a Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago and worked as an editor in Ukraine during the early years of the post-Soviet era. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous literary journals, anthologies and periodicals. New work appears in Wordpeace, FUSION Magazine, The Poetry Distillery and Ukrainian American Poets Respond. She was a Featured Poet in River Poets Journal. Ksenia has participated in literary presentations of her work at the Cornelia Street Café in New York City, Ukrainian-American Writers: A New Generation of Literary Voices at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago and The Ukrainian Institute of America.