Valžina Mort

Valzhyna Mort (1981, Belarus) is a poet and translator who has lived in the USA for almost twenty years. She has been writing and publishing in both her native language and English, in which three acclaimed collections of poetry have been published: Factory of Tears (2008), Collected Body (2011) and Music for the Dead and Resurrected (2020). The latter was named New York Times Poetry Book of the Year. She is the recipient of numerous international prizes, including the Vilenica Crystal, the Griffin Prize for Poetry and the Rilke Prize. Valžina Mort teaches at Cornell University in upstate New York.