Bohdan Boychuk

A native of Ukraine, Bohdan Boychuk (1929-2017) was a poet, fiction writer, essayist, editor and translator. During the Second World War, he ended up as an Ostarbaiter in Germany. He moved to the United States as a refugee in 1949. In New York, he was a co-founding member of the New York Group of poets, a circle of authors known for their experimental writing. An author of some two dozen of collections of poetry, prose, plays, essays, Boychuk also actively promoted Ukrainian literature. He was a co-translator of Bohdan Ihor Antonych’s Square of Angels and worked on Ivan Drach’s Orchard Lamps.