Julia Kolchinsky, born in Ukraine, was the Second Place winner of Narrative’s Sixteenth Annual Poetry Contest. She the author of five poetry collections, including The Many Names for Mother and PARALLAX (University of Arkansas Press, 2025). Her awards include two William Carlos Williams Prizes, the Ezra Pound Prize for Literary Translation, and the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Pennsylvania and is an assistant professor of English and creative Writing at Denison University.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- About Suffering and Other Poems, poetry, in Fall 2024
- Learning Yiddish, poetry, in Spring 2016
- Family Portrait as a Collection of Bones, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2015–2016