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Dzvinia Orlowsky [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Marshfield, MA
Massachusetts US
Email: 
dzvinia.orlowsky@verizon.net
Bio: 

Pushcart Prize poet, translator, and a Founding Editor of Four Way Books, Dzvinia Orlowsky has published five collection of poetry with Carnegie Mellon University Press including A Handful of Bees, reprinted in 2009 as a Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary; Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones, recipient of a 2010 Sheila Motton Book Award; and her most recent, Silvertone, for which she was named Ohio Poetry Day Association’s 2014 Co-Poet of the Year. Her translation from Ukrainian of Alexander Dovzhenko's novella, The Enchanted Desna, was published by House Between Water in 2006; and Jeff Friedman's and her co-translation of Memorials by Polish Poet Mieczyslaw Jastrun was published by Dialogos in 2014. She serves as Editor for Poetry in Translation for Solstice Literary Magazine and teaches at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing of Pine Manor College and at Providence College.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prizes won: 

She is a co-recipient with Jeff Friedman of a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Grant.

Prefers to work with: 
Teenagers

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