Literature – Poetry
Havertown, PA
September 2024, two weeks
Olga Livshin grew up in Ukraine and Russia and came to the US as a teenager. Her work appears in the New York Times, Ploughshares, The Rumpus, the Kenyon Review, and other journals. She is the author of the poetry collection A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman (2019) and the co-translator of Today is a Different War by the Ukrainian poet Lyudmyla Khersonska (2023). As a Consulting Poetry Editor for Mukoli: A Journal for Peace, she reviews poetry from conflict-affected communities across the world, with a focus on Eastern Europe.
During her residency, Livshin worked on her poetry collection in progress, Battle Cake, and gave a reading of her work at Tinta Wita Tipi.