UKRAINIAN MONSTER
 

                                                      Viktoriya Voloshina is a Ukrainian

                                                    American writer shaped by the

                                                    collision of Slavic faith and

                                                    American freedom. Raised in the

                                                    Pentecostal church that survived                                                              Soviet persecution, she grew up

                                                    inside its fear and endurance—

                                                    and broke with it to seek her own

                                                    path.

 

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She found her voice in the clarity and self-invention of artists like

Eminem, George Orwell, and Albert Camus. That path later took her into the study of conservative and liberal thought and to teaching at a program held at Oxford University on how revolution was averted in England.

 

Then her brother became mentally ill and disappeared onto the streets of Portland. When neither belief nor freedom could help him, she returned home to search for him.

 

This began Ukrainian Monster—for those who search through fracture for freedom, belonging, and a way to know oneself.