Genya Turovskaya is a Ukrainian American

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, translator and psychotherapist born in

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, Ukraine.

Early life and education

Genya Turovskaya was born in

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and grew up in

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. She studied

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, and

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. She received her MFA in comparative literature from Bard College in 2005.

Career

Turovskaya authored the chapbooks, ''Calendar'' in 2002, ''The Tides'' in 2007, and ''New Year's Day'' in 2011. She worked as an associate editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at

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. where she co-translated two books of poetry: ''Red Shifting'' by Aleksandr Skidan published in 2008 and ''The Russian Version'' by Elena Fanailova in 2010, both published by Ugly Duckling Presse. The latter won the University of Rochester's Three Percent Solution award for Best Translated Book of Poetry in 2010. In 2019, Turovskaya's collection of poems ''The Breathing Body Of This Thought'' was published by

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. and she won the Whiting Award for Poetry in March 2020. Her original poetry and translations from

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have appeared in ''

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'', '' Conjunctions'', ''A Public Space'', ''6x6'', ''Aufgabe'', ''Poets and Poems'', ''Octopus'', ''jubilat'', ''Tantalum'', ''Gulf Coast'', ''Jacket'', ''Saltgrass'', ''Shifter'', ''Supermachine'', and other publications.

Awards and fellowships

* Whiting Award for Poetry 2020. *

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Fellowship *Montana Artist Refuge Fellowship *the Witter Bynner Translation Residency at

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*Fund for Poetry grant

Personal life

Turovskaya lives in

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Bibliography

*''The Breathing Body of This Thought'' (Black Square Editions 2019) *''Calendar'', 2002 (Ugly Duckling Presse) *''The Tides'', 2007 (Octopus Books) *''New Year’s Day'', 2011 (Octopus Books) *''Dear Jenny'' (Supermachine)

References

1973 births Living people Ukrainian SSR emigrants to the United States 21st-century American poets Ukrainian Jews Jewish poets American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent American women poets 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American translators Russian–English translators 20th-century American translators 20th-century American women writers {{US-poet-1970s-stub