Olena Huseinova is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, radio journalist, documentarian, . . . witness to the continuing Russian 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  

Schedule of Events
Thursday, November 21, 2024:  “NIGHT AIR:  A Ukrainian Writer in the Time of Disaster,” Sautee Nacoochee Cultural Center, Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia

Thursday, November 21, 2024:  “Echoes of Ukraine:  An Evening with Olena Huseinova,” Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art, Piedmont University, Demorest, Georgia

Friday, November 29, 2024:  Interview with Dean Dyer, WRWH

Saturday, December 30, 2024:  Old Sautee Store podcast, with Bill Coen, Don Alison, and Buster Tallent, Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-stLt9cKs&ab_channel=TheOldSauteeStore

Sunday, December 1, 2024:  Social Hall, Grace-Cavalry Episcopal Church, Clarkesville, Georgia

Monday, December 2, 2024:  Interview with Darrell Everidge, WCHM Clarkesville 

Monday, December 2, 2024:  Interview with Martha Zoller, WDUN Gainesville

“Time is a permanent argument, the core of which is unknown.  One part of its movement inclines toward affirming, the other toward repudiating.”

— Róbert Gál                                                               

RÓBERT GÁL is a Slovak writer, editor, and publisher based in Prague, the Czech Republic. Working at the intersection of genres and media, heis the author of several books of aphorisms, fiction, and philosophical fragments available in English translation, including Naked Thoughts (Black Sun Lit, 2019), Agnomia (Dalkey Archive Press, 2018), On Wing (Dalkey Archive Press, 2015), and Signs & Symptoms (Twisted Spoon Press, 2003), and has also collaborated with composers, dancers, filmmakers, and visual artists in performance and installation work across Europe and the U.S. In Fall 2019, he was a Resident in the 12-week International Residency for Established Writers at the International Writing Program, University of Iowa. He is the 2019 IWP@OICR Writer-in-Residence at the Oregon Institute for Creative Research.

Algerian poet, journalist, and translator Salah Badis is a Fall 2018 Resident at the International Writing Program, University of Iowa, and the inaugural IWP@OICR Writer-in-Residence.  A freelance journalist since 2012, he is a musical and cultural researcher for both print and radio and a founding member of Nafha, one of the most important cultural magazines in Algeria.  His poems and essays in Arabic have been translated into French, English, and Turkish, with his first volume of poetry, ضجرالبواخر [The Boredom of Ships], published in 2016 by Al Mutawassit Press (Milan and Beirut).  In 2017, he worked in the Algerian radio archives with French curator Yasmina Reggad for the project We Dreamed of Utopia and We Woke up Screaming.  A writer for the Algerian news site Casbah Tribune, he has also served as Visiting Editor of the literary supplement Kalimat for the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.  He is currently working on the translation of two French novels to be published in 2018 by Barzakh Press.

The event will take place at the Library at Literary Arts: 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, 97205.

Algerian poet, journalist, and translator Salah Badis is a Fall 2018 Resident at the International Writing Program, University of Iowa, and the inaugural IWP@OICR Writer-in-Residence.  A freelance journalist since 2012, he is a musical and cultural researcher for both print and radio and a founding member of Nafha, one of the most important cultural magazines in Algeria.  His poems and essays in Arabic have been translated into French, English, and Turkish, with his first volume of poetry, ضجرالبواخر [The Boredom of Ships], published in 2016 by Al Mutawassit Press (Milan and Beirut).  In 2017, he worked in the Algerian radio archives with French curator Yasmina Reggad for the project We Dreamed of Utopia and We Woke up Screaming.  A writer for the Algerian news site Casbah Tribune, he has also served as Visiting Editor of the literary supplement Kalimat for the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.  He is currently working on the translation of two French novels to be published in 2018 by Barzakh Press.

Algerian poet, journalist, and translator Salah Badis is a Fall 2018 Resident at the International Writing Program, University of Iowa, and the inaugural IWP@OICR Writer-in-Residence.  A freelance journalist since 2012, he is a musical and cultural researcher for both print and radio and a founding member of Nafha, one of the most important cultural magazines in Algeria.  His poems and essays in Arabic have been translated into French, English, and Turkish, with his first volume of poetry, ضجرالبواخر [The Boredom of Ships], published in 2016 by Al Mutawassit Press (Milan and Beirut).  In 2017, he worked in the Algerian radio archives with French curator Yasmina Reggad for the project We Dreamed of Utopia and We Woke up Screaming.  A writer for the Algerian news site Casbah Tribune, he has also served as Visiting Editor of the literary supplement Kalimat for the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.  He is currently working on the translation of two French novels to be published in 2018 by Barzakh Press.