Dzvinia Orlowsky
Dzvinia Orlowsky | |
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After a reading at Boston University in 2014 | |
| Native name | Дзвіня Орловська |
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| Nationality | Ukrainian-American |
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| Notable awards | 2025 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation finalist
2022 1st Ampersand Poetry Prize for Poetry and Fiction selected by Bruce Weigl 2021 New England Poetry Club's Diana Der Hovanessian Prize selected by Jean Dany Joachim 2019 New England Poetry Club’s Samuel Washington Allen Prize selected by Robert Pinsky 2007 Pushcart Prize |
Dzvinia Orlowsky is a Ukrainian-American poet, translator, and editor. She is the author of seven poetry collections published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, including Those Absences Now Closest (2024).
Her honors include two National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowships and a Pushcart Prize. A founding editor of Four Way Books, Orlowsky is known for her work co-translating contemporary Ukrainian poetry with Ali Kinsella, including the writings of Natalka Bilotserkivets and Halyna Kruk, as well as Oleksander Dovzhenko’s Enchanted Desna. In her recent work, she introduced a variation of the cento form called the numbered-line cento, composed entirely from lines occupying the same ordinal position in source poems. Orlowsky serves as Writer-in-Residence in Poetry at the Solstice MFA Program at Lasell University, and is a contributing editor to Solstice Literary Magazine, and AGNI.