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Ksenia Rychtycka

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Website

http://www.kseniarychtycka.com

Genre

Poetry, Short Story Collections, Historical Fiction

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Ksenia Rychtycka is a first-generation Ukrainian-American writer. Her chapbook A SKY FULL OF WINGS won the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award and the 2022 Best Book Award (American Book Fest) in the Poetry Chapbook category and was shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize. The book also was a da Vinci Eye winner for cover design and selected as a finalist in the 2020 New Women's Voices Chapbook competition (published by Finishing Line Press).

Her debut collection of short stories CROSSING THE BORDER was selected as a finalist in the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the category of Short Story - Fiction. Ksenia's work has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, The Literary Bohemian, Fusion Magazine, Ukrainian American Poets Respon ...more

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Celebrating Luba Panchenko

My short story Bucha Spring was recently published in Fusion Magazine and I’m grateful for this opportunity to spotlight an amazing Ukrainian artist who sadly is no longer with us but whose brave spirit and artworks will be celebrated and passed on to future generations.

Like so many of us, I am thinking of Ukraine and its people as they courageously battle for their right to live as they choose i

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	Crossing The Border 4.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2012 — 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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	Ukrainian American Poets Respond by Valya Dudycz Lupescu (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Ksenia Rychtycka (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Olena Jennings (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2022	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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Olga of Kyiv: Princess Warrior

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“When Luba was born, her parents named her after the Ukrainian word for love. Lubov. Moya Luba. Lubochka. Every letter Roman had ever written Luba started out with a different variation of her name.”
― Ksenia Rychtycka, Crossing The Border

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“And the uniqueness of every moment
seeks the path from pain to a pearl.”
― Lina Kostenko

tags: inspirational, life-and-living

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“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

tags: love, mr-darcy

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“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

tags: happiness, life, sea

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“Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.”
― Astrid Lindgren

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