Ksenia Rychtycka’s poetry chapbook A Sky Full Of Wings (Finishing Line Press, 2021) was selected as a finalist in the 2020 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition. Ksenia is also the author of the short story collection, Crossing The Border (Little Creek Books, 2012). Ksenia lived in Ukraine during the early years of the post-Soviet era and has backpacked through twelve countries in Europe. Receiving a private viewing of the Dafni Monastery mosaics and rescuing a wayward parakeet on a winter morning in Kyiv remain highlights from her years of traveling and living abroad.