Dzvinia Orlowsky

Dzvinia Orlowsky
Occupation	Poet Translator Editor Professor
Nationality	American
Literary movement	Deep image New Internationalism
Notable award(s)	2007 Pushcart Prize 1999 Massachusetts Cultural Council Professional Development Grant 1998 Massachusetts Cultural Council Poetry Grant
Influences W. S. Merwin Charles Simic Franz Wright James Wright Wisława Szymborska

Dzvinia Orlowsky is a Ukrainian American poet, translator, editor, and professor. She is author of four poetry collections including her most recent, Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones (Carnegie Mellon University Press,^[1] 2009). Her first collection, A Handful of Bees, was reprinted in 2009 as a Carnegie Mellon University Classic Contemporary.

Dzvinia Orlowsky was born in Cambridge, Ohio to Miroslaus and Tamara Orlowsky. She and her sister, Maria, spent most of their early childhood in Byesville, a village in Guernsey county along Wills Creek before moving to Brunswick, Ohio. She received her BA from Oberlin College and her MFA from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She lives in Marshfield, Massachusetts with her husband Jay and their son Max, and daughter, Raisa.

Dzvinia Orlowsky’s poetry and translations of Ukrainian poetry and creative non-fiction have appeared in numerous anthologies including The Working Poet: 75 Writing Exercises and a Poetry Anthology (Autumn House Press, 2009); Never Before, Poems about First Experiences (Four Way Books, 2005); Poetry from Sojourner, A Feminist Anthology (University of Illinois Press, 2004); Dorothy Parker’s Elbow (Warner Books, 2002); A Hundred Years of Youth: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry (Lviv, 2000). A Map of Hope: An International Literary Anthology (Rutgers University Press, 1999); and From Three Worlds: New Writing from the Ukraine (Zephyr Press, 1996). Her translation from the Ukrainian of Alexander Dovzhenko's novella, The Enchanted Desna, was published by House Between Water Press in 2006.

A founding editor of New York-based Four Way Books,^[2] she is also contributing editor to Agni^[3] and Shade. She has taught poetry at the Mt. Holyoke Writers' Conference; The Boston Center for Adult Education; Emerson College; Gemini Ink; Keene State College Summer Writers Conference;^[4] Stonecoast Summer Writers’ Conference; Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing; Writers in Paradise; and the 2005 Solstice Summer Writers’ Conference at Pine Manor College. Dzvinia Orlowsky currently serves as core faculty of poetry at The Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College.^[5]

Dzvinia Orlowsky’s poems have appeared in a number of magazines, including Agni, Columbia, Field, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares^[6] and The American Poetry Review. Her honors include a Pushcart Prize (2007); A Massachusetts Cultural Council Professional Development Grant in (1999); a Massachusetts Cultural Council Poetry Grant in (1998); She has also been a finalist in the Grolier Prize, The Academy of American Poets Prize at Ohio State University, and the New Literary Awards Prize.

Published works

• A Handful of Bees (Carnegie Mellon University Press Classic Contemporary, 2009)
• Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009)
• The Enchanted Desna by Alexander Dovzhenko translated from Ukrainian (House Between Water, 2006)
• Except for One Obscene Brushstroke (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004)
• Edge of House (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999)
• A Handful of Bees (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1994)

References

External links

• American Poetry Review: Articles on Dzvinia Orlowsky
• ForeWord Magazine: Review of Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones
• Solstice: Silvertone
• Ploughshares: Site Zero^{[dead link]}}
• The Drunken Boat: Dzvinia Orlowsky 1
• The Drunken Boat: Dzvinia Orlowsky 2
• The Enchanted Desna on The Drunken Boat: Translation Excerpt 1
• The Enchanted Desna on Agni Online: Translation Excerpt 2
• Červená Barva Press: Dzvinia Orlowsky interviews Alex Motyl