About Megan Buskey

I'm a nonfiction writer who specializes in Ukrainian culture, history, and politics, and am interested in conducting interviews for the NBN "Ukrainian Studies" segment. My first book, Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile and Return (ibidem, 2023), won the 2024 Book Prize from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. My work has appeared in outlets including The Point, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, n+1, NPR’s All Things Considered, The American Scholar, and The New York Times Book Review. I have been traveling to and studying the former Soviet Union for more than two decades, including a year spent living in Ukraine as a Fulbright Fellow. I've also received fellowships from the German-American Fulbright Commission, the Logan Nonfiction Program at the Carey Institute of Global Good, the London Library, and the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna.

NBN Episodes hosted by Megan:

Dmytro Soloviov, "Ukrainian Modernism: Modernist Architecture of Ukraine" (Fuel, 2025)

July 3, 2026

Ukrainian Modernism

Dmytro Soloviov
Hosted by Megan Buskey

Ukraine’s modernist buildings are an extraordinary blend of function, avant-garde aesthetics and ingenious design, but despite these qualities, they r…

Alex Averbuch, "Furious Harvests" (Harvard UP, 2026)

May 22, 2026

Furious Harvests

Alex Averbuch
Hosted by Megan Buskey

Furious Harvests (Harvard University Press, 2026) transports readers to Alex Averbuch’s homeland of eastern Ukraine. Amid the bloody destruction b…