Ali Kinsella holds an MA in Slavic studies from Columbia University and has been translating from Ukrainian for thirteen years. With co-translator Dzvinia Orlowsky, she was a finalist for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize, a finalist for the 2025 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and granted a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Her translation of Taras Prokhasko’s novel, Anna’s Other Days, won the 2019 Kovaliv Fund Prize and was published in the collection Earth Gods (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2025). She co-edited Love in Defiance of Pain (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2022), an anthology of short fiction to support Ukrainians during the war. She is currently working on translations of Oleksander Dovzhenko, Halyna Kruk, Myroslav Laiuk, Vasyl Makhno, Iryna Vilde, and Sofia Yablonska.
Translations in London Ukrainian Review:
