Boris Dralyuk

Boris Dralyuk is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems and the translator of Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, and other authors. His work has appeared in the NYRB, the TLS, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the 2022 Gregg Barrios Prize from the National Book Critics Circle for his translation of Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees, and his translation of Kurkov’s The Silver Bone was recently longlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize . Formerly editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books, he is currently an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa.

Features

When It Takes Root in the Heart: A Conversation with Fady Joudah

By Boris Dralyuk and Fady JoudahMarch 11, 2024

Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American poet, translator, and physician. His latest collection, titled simply […], was written in the months following Israel's escalation of genocide in Gaza—which killed many of Joudah's family members.