Dream Bridge

Oleh Lysheha (1949-2014) was born in Ukraine. He is author of several collections of poetry, including The Great Bridge, To Snow and Fire, and Winter in Tysnmenytsia. Wanda Phipps is author of Mind Honey and other poetry collections. Virlana Tkacz heads the Yara Arts Group and has directed almost forty original shows at La MaMa Theatre in New York, as well as in cities in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Siberia. Their joint translation What We Live For, What We Die For: Selected Poems by Serhiy Zhadan was published 2019.Together, Phipps and Tkacz have received the Agni Poetry Translation Prize, the National Theatre Translation Fund Award, and thirteen translation grants from the New York State Council on the Arts. Their translations have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies

Virlana Tkacz, the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, is director of the Yara Arts Group in New York. Since 1996 she has worked with Buryat artists to create theater pieces based on Buryat stories, poetry, and songs.

Wanda Phipps is a poet, translator, and founding member of the Yara Arts Group. A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, her work has appeared in more than a hundred literary journals and anthologies.