Ilya Kaminsky

Ilya Kaminsky

Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977) is a Russian-American poet.

Life

Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union (now Ukraine), on April 18, 1977. He immigrated to the United States in 1993 after the US government granted his family asylum. Kaminsky earned his B.A. at Georgetown University before going on to receive his juris doctorate degree from University of California, Hastings. He currently teaches in the graduate creative writing [http://www.mfa.sdsu.edu program] at San Diego State University.

Work

After publishing a chapbook, "Musica Humana" (Chapiteau Press, ISBN 1-931498-32-6), Kaminsky's first full-length collection of poems, "Dancing in Odessa" (ISBN 1932195122), won the Whiting Writers' Award in 2005, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Metcalf Award, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry Magazine, and the Dorset Prize, as well as being chosen "the best poetry book of the year 2005" by ForeWord Magazine.

Kaminsky is particularly well known for his impassioned, almost ecstatic reading style.

External links

* [http://www.ilyakaminsky.com/ Ilya Kaminsky's home page]
* [http://fishousepoems.org/archives/ilya_kaminsky/ Several live audio links from The Fishouse]
* [http://www.mfa.sdsu.edu/ MFA Program at SDSU where Kaminsky teaches]


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