was a winner in the Poetry Society Members' Poems Competition (autumn 2018), and shortlisted in the Live Canon Poetry Competition (2018) and for the Bridport Prize (2018, 2010). Publications include
The Fire Station (Telltale Press, 2015), and, as an academic, a selection of literary criticism. She lives in Hove.
is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of three poetry collections,
Factory of Tears (Copper Canyon Press, 2008),
Collected Body (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) and, mostly recently,
Music for the Dead and Resurrected (FSG, 2020), (Bloomsbury, 2022). Mort is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, the Lannan Foundation, and the Amy Clampitt Foundation.
Mort teaches at Cornell University and writes in English and Belarusian. She translates between English, Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish. She has received the
Gulf Coast Prize in Translation and the National Endowment for the Arts grant in translation for her work on Polina Barskova’s book of selected poems
Air Raid (Ugly Duckling, 2021). Her translations are featured in many literary anthologies.
Motherfield: Poetry and Belarusian Protest Diary by Julia Cimafiejeva is forthcoming in the fall of 2022 from Deep Vellum Press, co-translated from Belarusian by
and Hanif Abdurraqib.
has written about art, film, and literature for the
New York Review of Books,
The Nation, and
Artforum, among others.
