Yuriy Tarnawsky

Yuriy Tarnawsky
Юрій Тарнавський
Self-portrait in the mirror, 1975
Born(1934-02-03)February 3, 1934
Turka, Poland (now Ukraine)
DiedOctober 14, 2025(2025-10-14) (aged 91)
OccupationWriter, Linguist
LanguageUkrainian, English
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materNew Jersey Institute of Technology, New York University
PeriodContemporary
GenresPoetry, Fiction, Drama, Essays, Translation
Notable worksThree Blondes and Death, The Placebo Effect Trilogy
SpousesP. N. Warren (m. 1957–1973), A. Kmetyk (m. 1979–1993), K. Zalewska (m. 2000)
ChildrenUstya Tarnawsky

Yuriy Orest Ivanovych Tarnawsky (February 3, 1934 – October 14, 2025) was a Ukrainian-American writer and linguist, one of the founding members of the New York Group of Poets, a group of avant-garde Ukrainian diaspora writers, and co-founder and co-editor of the journal New Poetry, as well as member of the US innovative writers' collaborative Fiction Collective. He wrote fiction, poetry, plays, translations, and criticism in both Ukrainian and English.