Dzvinia Orlowsky
Pushcart Prize recipient Dzvinia Orlowsky (author page at Amazon) is the author of four poetry collections, including her most recent, Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones (Carnegie Mellon, 2008). Her first, A Handful of Bees, was reprinted in 2008 as a Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary. Dzvinia’s poetry and translations have appeared in numerous anthologies, including A Map of Hope: An International Literary Anthology; From Three Worlds: New Writing from the Ukraine; and A Hundred Years of Youth: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry. Her translation from the Ukrainian of Alexander Dovzhenko’s novella, The Enchanted Desna, was published by House Between Water Press in 2006. She is a contributing editor to AGNI, a founding editor of Four Way Books, and teaches at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program of Creative Writing of Pine Manor College. (updated 7/2010)
AGNI has published the following work by Dzvinia Orlowsky:
| •At the National Home | |
| •Carpe Diem | ![]() |
| •Growing Up Ukrainian | |
| •A Handful of Bees | |
| •In Winter | |
| •Infusion | ![]() |
| •The Joke | |
| •Luba Doesn’t Have the Mouse | |
| •Piccolo | |
| •Pontoosuc Lake, Tanglewood | |
| •Pontoosuc Lake, Tanglewood | |
| •Requiem | |
| •The River | |
| •Visiting Hours | |
| •Wieliczka Salt Mine, Southern Poland |


