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 PARALLAX (University of Arkansas Press, 2025) and The Many Names for Mother. Her awards include the Ezra Pound Prize for Literary Translation, the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. 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