Anzhelina Polonskaya is the author of four poetry collections. Those available in English include To the Ashes (Zephyr Press, 2019) and Paul Klee’s Boat (Zephyr Press, 2013), which was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She has been awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship and a Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers at the Columbus State University in Georgia. In 2016 she won the Words on Borders festival’s Freedom Prize. Polonskaya has published translations in World Literature Today, Descant, AGNI, Kenyon Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry Review UK, The American Poetry Review, International Poetry Review, Boulevard, The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. Polonskaya’s work has also been translated into Dutch, Slovenian, Latvian, Spanish, and other languages. Born in Malakhovka, a small town near Moscow, she now lives in Dortmund, Germany. (updated 04/2021)