Max Rosochinsky

Max Rosochinsky is a scholar, translator, and poet from Simferopol, Crimea. He co-edited Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine, a groundbreaking anthology of contemporary poetry, and co-translated Lyuba Yakimchuk’s Apricots of Donbas, Marianna Kiyanovska’s The Voices of Babyn Yar, and Alex Averbuch’s Furious Harvests. He is a co-recipient of the Scaglione Prize for Literary Translation from the Modern Language Association of America, the Peterson Translated Book Award, and the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize. His research has been featured on CBC Radio, The Times, and The Guardian, among other venues, while his translations and editorial work have been highlighted on BBC Radio 3, The New York Times, Paris Review, Washington Post, the 2022 Grammy Award Ceremony, and numerous literary and academic journals. Max earned his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. His work on twentieth and twenty-first-century Ukrainian literature has been supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Ukrainian Book Institute, Peterson Literary Fund, Fulbright Scholars Program, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Endowment for the Arts. In recent years, Max was a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University in Budapest, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, the Polish Institute for Advanced Studies in Warsaw, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.