Ilya Kaminsky was born in the former Soviet Union and is now an American citizen. He is the author of Dancing in Odessa (2004) and Deaf Republic (2019), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. He is coeditor of The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry. He has received a Whiting Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.
