Maria G. Rewakowicz is a poet, translator, and literary scholar. She holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto and has taught Ukrainian literature at a number of universities, most recently at Rutgers University—New Brunswick, NJ. She has authored four collections of poetry in Ukrainian and two monographs of literary criticism in English. Her most recent book Ukraine’s Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991-2011 (2018) is the 2019 winner of the Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies. Her translations from Polish and Ukrainian have appeared in Agni, Cyphers, Modern Poetry in Translation, Modern Haiku, and Toronto Slavic Annual. Born in Poland to Ukrainian parents, Rewakowicz lives in New York City.