Ali Kinsella

Ali Kinsella has been translating from Ukrainian for twelve years. She co-edited Love in Defiance of Pain (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2022), an anthology of short fiction to support Ukrainians during the war. Her co-translations with Dzvinia Orlowsky of Natalka Bilotserkivets’s poems, Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow (Lost Horse Press, 2021) was a finalist for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize and winner of the 2022 AAUS Prize for Translation. Their volume of Halyna Kruk’s poetry in translation for which they were awarded an NEA fellowship, Lost in Living, came out with Lost Horse Press in spring 2024.