Lyudmyla Diadchenko earned her Ph.D. in Literary Theory from Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv, and currently serves 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, is due to appear soon as a bilingual collector’s edition by Portland, OR’s No Reply Press.