Oksana Zabuzhko, who was born in 1961, is one of the leading Ukrainian poets of her generation. She has published three volumes of poetry and a book-length essay, Two Cultures, as well as works of criticism and aesthetic philosophy, and translated the Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath into Ukrainian. Her work has appeared in Partisan Review, Harvard Review, Agni, The Massachusetts Review, The Poetry Miscellany, Crosscurrents, and other journals. She spent 1994 at Harvard University on a Fulbright grant.