Iryna Shuvalova is a poet and scholar from Kyiv, Ukraine. She is the author of five award-winning books of poetry, including Pray to the Empty Wells (Lost Horse Press, 2019). Her most recent and fifth book of poetry, Stoneorchardwoods (2020), has been named book of the year by Ukraine’s LitAktsent Prize for Literature and received the Special Prize of the Lviv UNESCO City of Literature Book Award. In 2009, she co-edited 120 Pages of “Sodom,” the first anthology of queer writing in Ukraine. Her poetry has been translated into twenty-five languages and published internationally.
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