Vasyl Makhno

Bio: Vasyl Makhno was born in Chortkiv, Ternopil oblast, in 1964. He is a poet, essayist, and translator. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry. His most recent collection, A Paper Bridge, appeared in 2017. He has also published two book of essays: The Gertrude Stein Memorial Cultural and Recreation Park (2006) and Horn of Plenty (2011), and two plays: Coney Island (2006) and Bitch/Beach Generation (2007). Makhno translated Zbigniew Herbert’s and Janusz Szuber’s poetry from Polish into Ukrainian, and edited an anthology of young Ukrainian poets from the 1990s. His poems and essays have been translated into twenty-five languages. His poems and essays appeared in English in Absinthe, Agni, Consequences, Post Road, Poetry International, and others. Two poetry collections, Thread and Other New York Poems (2009) and Winter Letters (2011), were published in English translation. He is the 2013 recipient of Serbia’s Povele Morave Prize in Poetry and BBC Book of the Year Award 2015. Makhno lives in New York City.

Events: Lost Europe: A Poetry Performance & Photographic Exhibition