2026 Pushcart Prize Winner and Recipient of the 2026 David Ferry and Ellen LaForge Prize in Poetry and Poetic Translation.

Award-winning poet, translator, a founding editor of Four Way Books (1993-2001), DZVINIA ORLOWSKY is the author of seven poetry collections published by Carnegie Mellon University Press including Bad Harvest named a 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read”in Poetry and her most recent, Those Absences Now Closest (2024) named to Brilliant Books’ Most Brilliant Books of 2024 list. She is a two-time recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a recipient of the 2026 David Ferry and Ellen LaForge Prize in Poetry and Poetic Translation, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Poetry Grant, a New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Motton Book Award, a co-recipient of a 2016 and 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, and her first collection, A Handful of Bees, was reprinted as part of the Carnegie Mellon University Press Classic Contemporary Series. Her poem sequence “The (Dis)enchanted Desna” was a winner of the 2019 New England Poetry Club’s Samuel Washington Allen Prize selected by Robert Pinsky.

Her co-translations with Ali Kinsella from the Ukrainian of Natalka Bilotserkivets’s selected poems, Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow (Lost Horse Press, 2021), was a finalist for the 2022 Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Derek Walcott Prize in Poetry, ALTA’s National Translation Award in Poetry, and the 2020-2021 winner of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize. Their co-translations from the Ukrainian of Halyna Kruk’s poetry, Lost in Living, for which they were awarded a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, was published by Lost Horse Press in 2024 and was named a 2025 PEN America Literary Award for Translation finalist. Orlowsky and Kinsella’s co-translation from the Ukrainian of Oleksander Dovzhenko’s The Enchanted Desna was published by Lost Horse Press in 2026.

Dzvinia is a contributing poetry editor to AGNI and Solstice Literary Magazine. She is Writer-in-Residence at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program, Lasell University, Newton, Massachusetts.

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