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Olga Livshin

b. 1978

Current City, State, Country

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth City, State, Country

Odesa, Ukraine (then part of the USSR)

Biography

Olga Livshin’s poetry and translations appear in the New York Times, Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, and other journals. She is the author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman (Poets & Traitors Press, 2019). Livshin co-translated A Man Only Needs a Room, a volume of Vladimir Gandelsman’s poetry, forthcoming from New Meridian Arts Books in 2022, and Today is a Different War by the Ukrainian poet Lyudmyla Khersonska, forthcoming from Arrowsmith Press in 2023. She is a private creative writing teacher, working with children.

Published Works

Poetry & Translation
Today is a Different War (by the Ukrainian poet Lyudmyla Khersonska; forthcoming from Arrowsmith Press, 2023)
A Man Only Needs a Room
(a volume of Vladimir Gandelsman’s poetry; forthcoming from New Meridian Arts Books, 2022)
A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman (Original poetry by Russian-American poet Olga Livshin, alongside her translations of Russian poetry by Anna Akhmatova, 1889-1966, and Vladimir Gandelsman, b.1948. Foreword by Ilya Kaminsky; Poets & Traitors Press, 2019)

Author Site

Links to Sample Works

Video Reading

Current Title

Director, Livshin Literary (a private creative writing teaching practice for children 8 and older)

Languages of Publication(s) and Poets Translated

Russian (Vladimir Gandelsman; Lyudmyla Khersonska)

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