from I Was Part Child

Olga Livshin is the author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman (Poets & Traitors Press, 2019). Her poetry and translations have appeared in Poetry, AGNI, The New York Times, and Ploughshares. She is one of the translators of the poetry collections Today is a Different War (2023) by Ukrainian poet Lyudmyla Khersonska and A Man Needs Only a Room by the immigrant Russian poet Vladimir Gandelsman. (updated 4/2026)