Amelia M. Glaser translates primarily from Yiddish, Ukrainian, and Russian. She is Professor of Literature at UC San Diego, where she holds the Chair in Judaic Studies. She is the author of Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands, and Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine. She is the editor of Stories of Khmelnytsky: Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising and, with Steven Lee, Comintern Aesthetics. Her joint translation with Yuliya Ilchuk of Halyna Kruk’s A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails was shortlisted for the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize. She is currently writing a book about contemporary Ukrainian poetry.

Yuliya Ilchuk is Assistant Professor of Slavic Literature and Culture at Stanford University. She is the author of an award-winning book, Nikolai Gogol: Performing Hybrid Identity, and a translator of contemporary Ukrainian poetry. Ilchuk’s most recent book project, The Vanished: Memory, Temporality, Identity in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine, revisits collective memory and trauma, post-memory, remembrance, memorials, and reconciliation in Ukraine. Her co-translation of Halyna Kruk’s A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails with Amelia M. Glaser was shortlisted for the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Translation Talks will run for approximately one hour on Zoom and will be hosted by Griffin Poetry Prize editorial director Adriana Oniță and social media editor Medgine Mathurin.

You will receive the Zoom link via Eventbrite after registering. Autocaptioning will be available. If you have any questions, please contact Adriana at editorialdirector@griffinpoetryprize.com

Check out our past Translation Talks on YouTube, featuring exceptional poet-translators in conversation, including Khaled Mattawa & Sarah Riggs; Ani Gjika & Dunya Mikhail; Ali Kinsella, Dzvinia Orlowsky, & Mira Rosenthal; Valzhyna Mort & Erin Moure; Manolis Aligizakis & Sharon Dolin; D. M. Bradford & Donald Nicholson-Smith, and George McWhirter & Emilie Moorhouse.

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