Monday, March 16, at 7 pm at QED, hear Julia Kolchinsky and Luisa Muradyan read their poetry with Poets of Queens, hosted by Olena Jennings.
Julia Kolchinsky is the author of four poetry collections: The Many Names for Mother, Don’t Touch the Bones, 40 WEEKS, and PARALLAX (The University of Arkansas Press, 2025) finalist of the Miller Williams Prize selected by Patricia Smith. Her next book, When the World Stopped Touching (YesYes Books, 2027), is a collaborative collection with Luisa Muradyan. Her nonfiction has appeared in Brevity, Shenandoah, Cincinnati Review, and won Michigan Quarterly Review’s Prize in Nonfiction. Julia is working on a collection of linked lyric essays about parenting her neurodiverse child and the end of her marriage under the shadow of the war in Ukraine, her birthplace. She is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Denison University and lives in Columbus, Ohio.
Luisa Muradyan is originally from Odesa, Ukraine and is the author of three poetry collections: I Make Jokes When I’m Devastated (SMU Project Poetica, 2025), When the World Stopped Touching (YesYes Books, 2027), and American Radiance (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). She holds a Ph.D. in Poetry from the University of Houston and won the 2017 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Additionally, Muradyan is a member of the Cheburashka Collective, a group of women and nonbinary writers from the former Soviet Union. Additional work can be found at Narrative, the Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, and Only Poems, among others.
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