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Valzhyna Mort is the author of three poetry collections, Factory of Tears (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), Collected Body (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) and, most recently, Music for the Dead and Resurrected (FSG, 2020). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Poetry Review, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, Granta, Gulf Coast, Best American Poetry and many more. With Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, Mort co-edited Gossip and Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poems and Prose (Tupelo Press). She has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Amy Clampitt Foundation, and the Civitella Raineri Foundation. She is a recipient of the Bess Hokins Prize from Poetry and Germany’s Burda Prize for Eastern European authors. Born in Minsk, Belarus, Mort teaches at Cornell University, and writes in English and Belarusian. She translates between English, Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish. Valzhyna Mort received the NEA grant in translation in 2020.
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