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Lviv, Ukraine

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Nina Murray is a Ukrainian-American poet and translator. Her full-length poetry collection, Alcestis in the Underworld, is published by Circling Rivers Press.

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	The Museum of Abandoned Secrets 4.24 avg rating — 1,859 ratings — published 2009 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Ad Could Go Here: Stories by Oksana Zabuzhko, Nina Shevchuk-Murray (Goodreads Author) (Editor)(Translator), Halyna Hryn (Translator)(Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fish: A History of One Migration by Peter Aleshkovsky, Nina Shevchuk-Murray (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.13 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Life by Oksana Lutsyshyna, Nina Murray (translator), Nina Shevchuk-Murray (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.12 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Stories: Original Works by Russian Authors by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Dmitry Bykov, Vladimir Voinovich 3.54 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alcestis in the Underworld: Poems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Minor Heresies 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fifty-six North: Poems by Nina Shevchuk-Murray (Goodreads Author), Nina Murray it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ivan and Phoebe (Deep Vellum, 2023) spotlights the uproarious generation that led the Ukrainian independence movement of 1990; from subjugation to revolution to post-Soviet rule, it investigates the difficulties and absurdities of societal change and the families that change with it.

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52 Ways of Looking at a Poem

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The Voice At 3:00 A.m.: Selected Late and New Poems

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