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Boris Dralyuk, Ph.D.

Applied Associate Professor of English

Presidential Professor of English & Creative Writing

About

Boris Dralyuk is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems (2022), editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution (2016), co-editor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (2015), and translator of volumes by Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, Leo Tolstoy, and other authors. His poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Hudson Review, Raritan Quarterly, The Spectator, Best American Poetry 2023, and elsewhere, and his criticism and translations have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, Granta, and The New Yorker, among other venues. He is the recipient of a 2024 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2022 Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize from the National Book Critics Circle, and the 2020 Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing from the Washington Monthly. Formerly the Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books, he is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Nimrod International Journal.

Awards and Honors

  • Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2024
  • Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize from the National Book Critics Circle, 2022
  • Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing from the Washington Monthly, 2020

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Research interests and areas of expertise

  • Poetry
  • Translation
  • Criticism