Sheila Margaret Motton Prize Finalist, selected by Heather Treseler
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Dzvinia Orlowsky is author of seven poetry collections published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, including Bad Harvest and Those Absences Now Closest. Her honors include two Pushcart Prizes, the 2019 New England Poetry Club Samuel Washington Allen Prize, selected by Robert Pinsky for her poem sequence “The (Dis)enchanted Desna,” and the 2026 David Ferry and Ellen LaForge Prize in Poetry and Poetic Translation. Her co-translations with Ali Kinsella include Natalka Bilotserkivets’s Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow, a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and winner of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize; Halyna Kruk’s Lost in Living, a 2024 NEA Translation Fellowship recipient and PEN America Literary Award finalist; and Oleksander Dovzhenko’s The Enchanted Desna (Lost Horse Press, 2026). She is a founding editor of Four Way Books, a contributing poetry editor for Solstice Literary Magazine, and Writer-in-Residence at Solstice MFA in Creative Writing.
Selections from Those Absences Now Closest (Carngie Mellon University Press, 2024)