Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six years old. She is author of The Many Names for Mother (Kent State University Press, 2019), winner of the 2018 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and the chapbook, The Bear Who Ate the Stars (Split Lip Press, 2014). show more Her third collection, 40 WEEKS, written while preognant with her daughter, is forthcoming from YesYes Books, in 2021. Her poems appear in POETRY, American Poetry Review, and The Nation, among others. Julia is the editor of Construction Magazine. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and is completing her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philly with her two children, two cats, one dog, and one husband. show less