Poetry Workshop
Olena Kalytiak Davis
Olena Kalytiak Davis is the author of two collections of poetry, Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunites (Tin House/ Bloomsbury Press, 2003) and And Her Soul Out Of Nothing (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997). The former was a Spring 2004 Book Sense Poetry Top Ten Pick and the latter was selected by Rita Dove for the Brittingham Prize in Poetry.
Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including four Best American Poetry volumes, and have won a Pushcart Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation writers grant, a Rasmuson Fellowship and several grants from the Alaska and Juneau Arts Councils. She writes and raises her two children in Anchorage, Alaska.
