Ekaterina Derysheva

Ekaterina Derysheva is a displaced poet from Kharkiv, born in 1994 in Melitopol, Ukraine. Her poems have been published in journals such as Poem-a-Day series, Asymptote, Plume, Zerkalo, Tlen Literacki, Literaturportal Bayern, Wizje, Volga, Homo Legens, and others. She is the author of the books "Starting Point" (2018) and "There Will Be No Installation" (2023), and the co-author of the book "Earth Time" (Romania, 2020). Her poems are featured in the anthology "In the Hour of War," edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Carolyn Forché. She was longlisted for the Arkadiy Dragomoshchenko Prize (2019) and is a laureate of the Europa Mai Prize (2022). Her poems have been translated into 11 languages.

She has received fellowships from Villa Concordia (Bamberg), LCB (Berlin), Next Page Foundation (Sofia), La Factorie (Normandy, 2023), Villa Sarkia (Sysmä, Finland, 2023), Moskosel Creative Lab (Sweden), the University of Pennsylvania (2024), Artist Protection Fund Fellowship.