Reading from works in translation: Olena Jennings and Alex Niemi at Woodland Pattern – Milwaukee, WI

Olena Jennings is the author of the poetry collection The Age of Secrets (Lost Horse Press), the chapbook Memory Project, and the novel Temporary Shelter (Cervena Barva Press). She is the translator or co-translator of collections by Ukrainian poets Kateryna Kalytko (co-translated with Oksana Lutsyshyna), Iryna Shuvalova, Vasyl Makhno, and Yuliya Musakovska. Her translation of Anna Malihon’s Girl with a Bullet is forthcoming in 2025 from World Poetry Books. She lives in Queens, New York, where she founded and co-curates the Poets of Queens reading series and press.

Alex Niemi is a writer and award-winning translator. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and anthologized in Best Literary Translations 2025. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Elephant (dancing girl press), and her latest translation, The Endless Week by Laura Vazquez, is forthcoming from Dorothy, a publishing project, in September of this year.