Our next reader for this Saturday is Olena Jennings! Olena’s #NewYearsResolution: this year she will finally achieve self-actualization. Bernice says … good luck with that!

-Jolie

Olena Jennings has published fiction in Joyland, Projecttile, and Pioneertown. Her poetry can be found in Poems By Sunday. Her translations of poetry can be found in Chelsea, Poetry International, and Wolf. She has read her poetry with Yara Arts Group, at the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and at La MaMa Club. She completed her MFA in writing at Columbia and her MA in Ukrainian Literature at the University of Alberta. She lives in Astoria.