Dr. Valzhyna Mort

Biography

Valzhyna Mort is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus. She writes in English and Belarusian. Mort is the author of several poetry collections, including 'Factory Tears' (Copper Canyon Press, 2008) and 'Collected Body' (Copper Canyon Press, 2011), as well as 'Music Dead Resurrected' (FSG, 2020), which was recognized as one of the best poetry books by NPR in 2020. She is the winner of the 2020 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. Mort has received notable fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, the Lannan Foundation, and the Amy Clampitt Foundation. Her work has also been honored with the Bess Hokin Prize in Poetry and has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for a Single Poem. Mort's poetry has been published in prominent journals such as American Poetry, The New Yorker, Poetry, and Granta. Additionally, she translates from English, Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish and received the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation for her work on Polina Barskova's selected poems. Her poetry has been translated into several languages and she has won the Burda Prize for Eastern European authors in Germany and the Crystal Vilenica prize in Slovenia.

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