Lyudmyla Diadchenko earned her Ph.D. in Literary Theory from Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv, and has served as Vice President of the Ukrainian Writers Association. She has published three books in her native Ukrainian, including the award-winning A Hen for the Turkish Man. Her first book translated into English, Magnetic Storms, appeared in late 2023 as a bilingual collector’s edition by Portland, OR’s No Reply Press.