Olena Huseinova is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, radio journalist, documentarian, . . . witness to the continuing onslaught against her country.  She is the author of three collections of poetry—Open Rider (2012), ranked in the top ten books at the Ukrainian Book Arsenal Fair and top twenty at the Lviv Publishers Forum; Superheroes (2016), with design by the art studio Agrafky, voted best illustrated book of the year; and, most recently, Night Air (2024), whose structure is based on a 12-hour, overnight radio shift.  In addition to poetry, Ms. Huseinova writes essays and short pieces of prose, some of which can be found in the anthology Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War, edited by Mark Andryczyk, and published by Penguin in 2023.  Since 2016, she has served as Editor-in-Chief of UA: Radio Culture, part of Ukraine’s Public Broadcasting Company (now known as Suspilne Ukraine), where she oversees radio theater and literary programming, leads a team producing radio documentaries on Ukrainian culture, and hosts her own live radio programs.  From February 2022-August 2023, she presented round-the-clock news for broadcast on Ukrainian Radio, and has since devoted herself primarily to documentary writing about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with a particular focus on its impact on civilians.  She is a 2024 Writer-in-Residence at the International Writing Program, University of Iowa, her participation made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, and the 2024 IWP@OICR Writer-in-Residence at the Oregon Institute for Creative Research.  Her work has been translated into English, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hebrew, Finnish, Lithuanian, and Estonian, among others.