Daryna Gladun
Poet and translator, MFA candidate in Poetry, University of Notre Dame
Daryna Gladun is a Ukrainian writer, translator, performance artist and researcher. She is the author of 4 poetry collections: To Chop the Tree (2017), the winner of SmoloskypLiterary Prize; From the Shadow of Handsome Red Boys (2020), named one of the best poetry books of 2020 by PEN Ukraine; Radio "War" (2022), translated into Polish and Montenegrin; The war doesn't start tomorrow (2023), translated into Swedish. Gladun is co-translator of a book by Valzhyna Mort, two anthologies of Belarusian literature, and one libretto.
She is a laureate of numerous literary contests, a recipient of fellowships from the President of Ukraine, International Writers’ and Translators’ House, House of Europe, Staromiejski House of Culture, Potsdam University, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Leslie Center for Humanities at Dartmouth College. Her works have been translated into dozens of languages and published in numerous Ukrainian and International magazines and anthologies.