OLGA LIVSHIN

I grew up in Ukraine and Russia, and came to the US as a teenager. My poetry recently appears in Poetry magazine and the Southern Review, and is forthcoming from AGNI.

I am the author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman (Poets & Traitors Press, 2019). 

A poem by the Ukrainian poet Lyudmyla Khersonska that I translated is published in The New York Times, and an interview with Khersonska, in The Rumpus. I co-translated Today is a Different War by Lyudmyla Khersonska (Arrowsmith Press, 2023) and A Man Only Needs a Room, a volume of the immigrant Russian poet Vladimir Gandelsman (New Meridian Arts, 2022).

Below are some organizations that have helped me on my journey. Take a look at them and see if they may be helpful to you too!

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