Harriman alumna Ali Kinsella (MARS-REERS ’14) will teach the literary prose component at the 2025 Translating Ukraine Summer Institute, organized by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute with support from a number of organizations, including the Harriman Institute.
From the announcement:
Ali Kinsella holds an MA in Slavic studies from Columbia University and has been translating from Ukrainian for thirteen years. With co-translator Devinia Orlowsky, she was a finalist for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize, shortlisted for the 2025 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and granted a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.
Her translation of Taras Prokhasko’s novel, Anna’s Other Days, won the 2019 Kovaliv Fund Prize and is forthcoming later this year from the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. She co-edited Love in Defiance of Pain (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2022), an anthology of short fiction to support Ukrainians during the war. She is currently working on translations of Halyna Kruk, Myroslav Laiuk, Vasyl Makhno, Sofia Yablonska, and Iryna Vilde.
