678:, November 21, 1997. Accessed February 5, 2022. "If Askold Melnyczuk (GRS'78) had known, in 1971, that the underground newspaper he and his Cranford, N.J., high school buddies were founding would over the next quarter-century metamorphose into one of the nation's premier literary journals, he might have second-guessed the method of selection that led to its being named after a Vedic deity."
195:, 20 miles (32 km) south of New York City. His younger sister, Hanna, is a painter and teacher. His parents, Edward Melnyczuk and Olena Zahajkewycz Melnyczuk, were Ukrainian refugees who fled Peremyshl, Poland in 1944, along with his grandfather, the noted scholar and educator, Bohdan Zahajkewycz. After five years in a refugee camp in
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