Dzvinia Orlowsky

Who is Dzvinia Orlowsky?

Dzvinia Orlowsky is a Ukrainian American poet, translator, editor, and professor. She is author of five poetry collections including Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones and her most recent, Silvertone . She is co-winner of the Sheila Motton Book Award. 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; Never Before, Poems about First Experiences; Poetry from Sojourner, A Feminist Anthology; Dorothy Parker’s Elbow; A Hundred Years of Youth: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry. A Map of Hope: An International Literary Anthology; and From Three Worlds: New Writing from the Ukraine. Her translation from the Ukrainian of Alexander Dovzhenko's novella, The Enchanted Desna, was published by House Between Water Press in 2006.