Vasyl Makhno, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Vasyl Makhno

poet

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1964

Place of Birth: Chortkiv, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

Profession: writer, poet, translator

Nationality: United States, Ukraine

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Vasyl Makhno (Ukrainian: ?????? ?????, born October 8, 1964 in Chortkiv) is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, and translator.
He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Winter Letters and Other Poems, translated by Orest Popovych (Spuyten Duyvil, 2011) and, most recently, I want to be Jazz and Rock’n’Roll (Ternopil, Krok, 2013).
He has also published two books of essays, The Gertrude Stein Memorial Cultural and Recreation Park (2006) and Horn of Plenty (2011).
Makhno has translated Zbigniew Herbert’s and Janusz Szuber’s poetry from Polish into Ukrainian.
His poems and essays have been translated into 25 languages, and he is the 2013 recipient of Serbia’s Povele Morave Prize in Poetry.
Makhno currently lives in New York City.