ABOUT
ABOUT DANIEL MOYSAENKO
Daniel Moysaenko is the author of Overtakelessness (Graywolf Press, 2026), winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award.
His poems have appeared in The Nation, Poetry, The Poetry Review, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. His critical writing has appeared in Chicago Review, Harvard Review, and Kenyon Review. And his translations have appeared in Asymptote, the Financial Times, and several anthologies of Ukrainian poetry.
A two-time National Poetry Series finalist, he is the recipient of a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship and Emory University Rose Library Fellowship.
After a decade of teaching writing and international literature in Massachusetts, Florida, and Ohio as an adjunct professor and working in editorial and programming roles at the Poetry Foundation, BOMB Magazine, and elsewhere, he retrained as a lawyer.
He holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, PhD from Florida State University, and JD from Case Western Reserve University. Raised in the Ukrainian diaspora, he lives in Ohio's Chagrin Valley.