Kyivsky Waltz a love story - Lack, Ks
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KS started writing Kyivsky Waltz in 2014, at the start of Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity (a.k.a. the Maidan Revolution), to answer the question she was asked more and more as the invasion grew into the monstrosity it has become: why did she love Ukraine so much? Kyivsky Waltz is a hybrid chapbook that uses poetry and artwork to tell the story of how KS experienced Ukraine from 1994 to 1996: arriving at 22, alone, completely lost and unable to communicate, yet somehow managing to find a home and people to love in a new nation with an old history. All of the author's proceeds will be donated to…mehr

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KS started writing Kyivsky Waltz in 2014, at the start of Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity (a.k.a. the Maidan Revolution), to answer the question she was asked more and more as the invasion grew into the monstrosity it has become: why did she love Ukraine so much? Kyivsky Waltz is a hybrid chapbook that uses poetry and artwork to tell the story of how KS experienced Ukraine from 1994 to 1996: arriving at 22, alone, completely lost and unable to communicate, yet somehow managing to find a home and people to love in a new nation with an old history. All of the author's proceeds will be donated to Razom, a nonprofit organization committed to raising funds for Ukrainian humanitarian aid.
Autorenporträt
KS Lack is a writer and letterpress artist interested in the interplay between presswork and poetry and in transcending constraints by working with them. Her work has appeared in various publications and galleries including Proteus Gowanus, Main Street Arts, The Center for Book Arts, Eastern Iowa Press, Red Flag Poetry, The Clemente, and Inverted Syntax. She is a founding member of the Introspective Collective consortium of artists. A native New Yorker, KS received degrees in Post-Soviet Studies from Columbia University (B.A.) and the London School of Economics (M.Sc.) She has been living with chronic pain and disability since childhood. From 1994 to 1996, KS Lack lived in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she helped start Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (The Mirror Weekly), one of Ukraine's first independent newspapers.