Adjunct Assistant Professor, English/Creative Writing
Pushcart-Prize winner Dzvinia Orlowsky is the author of six poetry collections including Bad Harvest (2018) recently named a 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read” in poetry, Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones, co-winner of the 2010 Sheila Motton Book Award, and Silvertone (2013) for which she was named Ohio Poetry Day Association’s 2014 Co-Poet of the Year. Her first collection, A Handful of Bees, was reprinted in 2008 as part of the Carnegie Mellon University Classic Contemporary Series. Dzvinia’s poetry and translations have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Agni, Field, Guernica, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, Antioch Review, International Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review; A Map of Hope: An International Literary Anthology; From Three Worlds: New Writing from Ukraine; and A Hundred Years of Youth: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry, and Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse. Her translation from Ukrainian of Alexander Dovzhenko’s novella, The Enchanted Desna, was published by House Between Water in 2006, and in 2014, Jeff Friedman's and her co-translation of Memorials by Polish Poet Mieczyslaw Jastrun was published by Dialogos. In 2016, she and Friedman were awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship in support of continuing their translation work of Jastrun’s poems. A founding editor of Four Way Books (1993-2001), she is also a contributing editor to Agni and contributing poetry editor to Solstice Literary Magazine. She has taught poetry at the Mount Holyoke Writers’ Conference, The Boston Center for Adult Education, Emerson College, Gemini Ink, the Stonecoast Summer Writers’ Conference, the Stonecoast MFA Program, Writers in Paradise, and the Solstice Summer Writers’ Conference at Pine Manor College. In 2012 she accepted a one-year appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Providence College and currently conducts poetry and prose poetry workshops as Guest Lecturer at the college. Dzvinia is a recipient and co-recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Poetry Grant as well as a Council’s Professional Development Grant, and most recently, New England Poetry Club’s 2019 Samuel Washington Allen Prize for her poem sequence titled “The (Dis)enchanted Desna.” She is Founding Director of Night Riffs: A Solstice Magazine Reading and Music Series. She lives in Massachusetts. Visit her website: www.dzvinia.orlowsky.com
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About Dzvinia Orlowsky
Pushcart-Prize winner Dzvinia Orlowsky is the author of six poetry collections including Bad Harvest (2018) recently named a 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read” in poetry, Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones, co-winner of the 2010 Sheila Motton Book Award, and Silvertone (2013) for which she was named Ohio Poetry Day Association’s 2014 Co-Poet of the Year. Her first collection, A Handful of Bees, was reprinted in 2008 as part of the Carnegie Mellon University Classic Contemporary Series. Dzvinia’s poetry and translations have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Agni, Field, Guernica, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, Antioch Review, International Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review; A Map of Hope: An International Literary Anthology; From Three Worlds: New Writing from Ukraine; and A Hundred Years of Youth: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry, and Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse. Her translation from Ukrainian of Alexander Dovzhenko’s novella, The Enchanted Desna, was published by House Between Water in 2006, and in 2014, Jeff Friedman's and her co-translation of Memorials by Polish Poet Mieczyslaw Jastrun was published by Dialogos. In 2016, she and Friedman were awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship in support of continuing their translation work of Jastrun’s poems. A founding editor of Four Way Books (1993-2001), she is also a contributing editor to Agni and contributing poetry editor to Solstice Literary Magazine. She has taught poetry at the Mount Holyoke Writers’ Conference, The Boston Center for Adult Education, Emerson College, Gemini Ink, the Stonecoast Summer Writers’ Conference, the Stonecoast MFA Program, Writers in Paradise, and the Solstice Summer Writers’ Conference at Pine Manor College. In 2012 she accepted a one-year appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Providence College and currently conducts poetry and prose poetry workshops as Guest Lecturer at the college. Dzvinia is a recipient and co-recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Poetry Grant as well as a Council’s Professional Development Grant, and most recently, New England Poetry Club’s 2019 Samuel Washington Allen Prize for her poem sequence titled “The (Dis)enchanted Desna.” She is Founding Director of Night Riffs: A Solstice Magazine Reading and Music Series. She lives in Massachusetts. Visit her website: www.dzvinia.orlowsky.com
| Present | Solstice MFA Low-Residency Program for Writers of Pine Manor College, Founding Faculty (Adjunct), Poetry, Pine Manor College | |
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| 2012 - 2022 | Adjunct Assistant Professor, English/Creative Writing, Providence College ‐ English | |
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Research Interests
Honors and Awards
- 2010 co-winner Sheila Motton Poetry Prize
- 2006 Pushcart Prize Recipient
- 2000 Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Fellowship Nominee
- 2022 co-winner New England Poetry Club’s Diana Der Hovanessian Prize
Courses
- Introduction to Literature
- Creative Writing: Poetry
Contact Information
www.dzvinia.orlowsky.com
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