Virlana Tkacz is a literary translator and a scholar of Ukrainian modernism. She is the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, the National Theatre Translation Award, The Agni Review Poetry Translation Prize, and three NYSCA grants for her translations with Wanda Phipps. In 2020, their translation of poems by Serhiy Zhadan, What We Live For, What We Die For, was published by Yale University Press. She is a theatre director and head of Yara Arts Group, a resident company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York City. She has created 37 original productions for Yara that have been performed in New York, Lviv, Kharkiv, Bishkek, Ulan Ude, and Ulaanbaatar, as well as China and Japan.
