Katia Kapovich
Katia Kapovich is a Russian poet now living in the United States. She writes in both Russian and English.Life and career
She was born in 1960 in Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union, the only child of Jewish parents. She emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1990. In 2002 she received the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the United States Library of Congress. Her first book in English, Gogol in Rome, was published in 2004 by Salt Publishing, and was shortlisted for the Poetry Trust's 2005 Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.
Her poem 'The Green One Over There' was included in the anthology Poetry 180 which grew out of the Library of Congress's poetry-for-schools project.
Her work has appeared in periodicals including the London Review of Books, News from the Republic of Letters, and Novy Mir.
She is one of the editors of Fulcrum .Books
Russian
- День Ангела и ночь, 1992.
- Суфлер: Роман в стихах 1998.
- Прощание с шестикрылыми 2001.
- Перекур: Стихотворения, 2002.
- Веселый дисциплинарий, 2005.
English
- Gogol in Rome, Salt Publishing, 2004,
- Cossacks and Bandits, Salt Publishing, 2008..
Anthologies
- Richard McKane Poet for Poet, Hearing Eye, 1998..
- Richard McKane Ten Russian Poets, Surviving the Twentieth Century, Anvil Press Poetry, London, 2003,.
