Dzvinia Orlowsky is a poet and translator. She is the author of five collections of poetry published by 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 translation of
Memorials by Polish Poet Mieczysław Jastrun was published by Dialogos in 2014. She is a Founding Editor of Four Way Books, a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Massachusetts Cultural Council poetry grant, and recipient with Jeff Friedman of a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Grant. She teaches poetry at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing of Pine Manor College and at Providence College. Her newest poetry collection,
Bad Harvest, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2018.
