Iryna Shuvalova

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Iryna Shuvalova is a poet and scholar from Kyiv, Ukraine, living between Europe and East Asia. She is the author of five award-winning books of poetry in Ukrainian, including endsongs (2024). Her 2020 collection stoneorchardwoods was named poetry book of the year in Ukraine, while her 2019 bilingual collection Pray to the Empty Wells has been described as 'a revelation' by The Observer. In 2009, she co-edited 120 Pages of ‘Sodom,’ the first anthology of queer writing in Ukraine. Her poetry has been translated into 32 languages and published in Literary Hub Literary Hub, Modern Poetry in Translation, and Words Without Borders Words Without Borders, among others. She herself is an award-winning translator bringing modern and contemporary Ukrainian poetry to English-speaking readers. Shuvalova is also a scholar of culture, politics, and society in Ukraine. She holds a PhD in Slavonic Studies from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge scholar, and an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College, where she was a Fulbright scholar.