A classically trained pianist, she graduated from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas' Professional Film Crew Training Program, and worked in film before moving into writing.[1][2] She is the author of American Gypsy: A Memoir (FSG, 2012). Her works have appeared inSlate[3] and Time,[4] and Immigrant Voices Vol.II (Penguin Random House, 2015). She was the 2013 BMI - Library of Congress Kluge Center Fellow and the 2020 recipient of the Picador Guest Professorship Award from the University of Leipzig, Germany.[5] Along with many interviews and panel appearances, Oksana has presented her research on Magical Realism In Soviet Russia at the Library of Congress in 2013[6] and participated in the C-SPAN panel discussion on race and ethnicity in 2015.[7] In 2018, Oksana founded Lounge Writers, an online creative writing studio that offers classes by award-winning and best-selling authors to help writers of all levels explore and enhance their craft.
Tyrkus, Michael J. (2014). Contemporary authors. Volume 344 : a bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Detroit: Gale. ISBN9781414497334. OCLC864717039.
