Eugene Ostashevsky

Eugene Ostashevsky is a poet, translator, and professor at New York University. He is the co-author of Victor, a Soldier’s Story (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in June 2027), a graphic memoir of his grandfather’s experience as a Soviet soldier in World War II. His poetry collections include The Feeling Sonnets, which revisits the Siege of Leningrad from the point of view of a naturalized American citizen living in Germany, and his poems have appeared in the New York Review of Books, Paris Review, and Best American Poetry. Among other honors, he has received the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association and the City of Münster Prize for International Poetry. Born in Leningrad, he now lives in Brooklyn and Berlin.