Valzhyna Mort

Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus and moved to the USA in 2005. She’s the author of two collections of poetry, Factory of Tears (Copper Canyon Press, 2008) and Collected Body (Copper Canyon Press, 2011). Mort was the recipient of the Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry Magazine. (Photo credit: 3:AM Magazine)