Brian Spadora is a writer living in New Jersey. He is working on a narrative nonfiction book about one family’s experience during the Second World War in what is now Western Ukraine. Brian traveled to Ukraine in December 2005 to cover the work of Ukrainian-American election monitors during the Orange Revolution. In 2007, he returned to Ukraine to interview former members of the Ukrainian resistance during WWII, and he traveled to Kazakhstan to interview Ukrainians who had been imprisoned in Soviet GULAG camps for nationalist activity. Brian has an MA in Journalism from New York University and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction writing from Goucher College.
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March 3, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Mary Luther
Hey Brian!
As always, a day late and a dollar short–finally getting around to looking at your stuff (which I will read, I promise–I’m just swamped with other stuff at the moment). Just wanted to let you know I’m giving your info to my cleaning gal, Yuliya Zadoyko and her pal, Irena, so maybe they will check out your site and add their comments as they are recent comers to our shores.
Hope all is well with the fam–haven’t seen you folks in ages and your kids will be all grown up by the time an opportunity rolls around. (Maybe when Jen visits later this month?)
Love,
“Aunt” Mary (the ol’gray Mare) and “Uncle” Gray (who deserves the honorific)
March 3, 2010 at 9:26 PM
brianspadora
Thanks so much for reading! No problem about tardiness. The blog has been up for less than two months, so I still think of it as new. I hope Yuliya and Irena find the blog interesting, and I hope you do, as well. I welcome all comments, even those taking me to task!
Things are well with us, thanks. It would be great to see you and Uncle Ray, and I hope we can do that when Jen is back stateside. Please give him my best.