Valya Dudycz Lupescu

@valya.bsky.social

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Writes about the experience of magic in the world 🇺🇦🇺🇸 Author of The Silence of Trees and Mother Christmas, editor of Embroidered Worlds: Fantastic Fiction from Ukraine and the Diaspora. 🌻

Ukrainian American woman in a Ukrainian embroidered blouse made from red and black threads, a wreath of flowers on her head.
Book cover illustration of elderly Hutzul woman smoking a pipe.
Photograph of Lutfiye Zudiyeva, Crimean Tartar woman in a hijab.
Photograph of Lutfiye Zudiyeva, Crimean Tartar woman in a hijab.
Fifty-year old woman with glasses and a purple and blue mug stands smiling in her living room.
A smiling woman with long brown hair holds a book with an old Ukrainian woman's face on the cover.
Black and white bookplate of a young Ukrainian woman with braids in Ukrainian folk costume.
Bookplate sketch of a young Ukrainian Women in folk costume.
Woman sits behind a laptop with a Ukrainian Witches Unite sticker on it.
A young Ukrainian woman in full embroidered folk costume with the words: "Embroidered Worlds" above her and "Literary Patron" beneath her.
An image of the cover for the anthology with a futuristic old Hutsul woman smoking a pipe.
Test atop a Cyrillic keyboard with the quote, "There are special people who spend their lives building literary bridges to share books, poems, songs...They stand on the threshold between the world of the original story and a new audience."
A Ukrainian pysanka on a goose egg decorated in blue, red, yellow, and green symbols.
A fierce young Ukrainian woman with braids, embellished with mythic elements.
Ukrainian woman with a bandana around her head stands in front of a tank.
Silver and black part-Siamese cat looks for kickstarter backers amid the leaves of a Zamioculcas zamiifolia plant in a terra cotta planter, resting atop a red and black Ukrainian embroidered cloth.
Thoughtful black and white tabby sits atop a blue bean bag, one paw draped over a Ukrainian embroidered pillow made by my Baba.
Small half-siamese cat with blue eyes looking up beside blue and yellow Ukrainian embroidery while sitting like an adorable loaf atop a table.
A photograph on an inscription in a poetry book titled Fear of Subways by Maureen Seaton that reads: For Valya -- Don't fear! Keep writing! Love, Maureen 11/21/95
Black and white photograph of a book with a sprig of myrtle placed upon its pages. Text on the top reads: Український інститут книги. Text on the bottom reads: Translate Ukraine: 77 selected projects in 2023