{{short description|American poet|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox writer | name = Olena Kalytiak Davis | native_name_lang = uk | native_name = {{nobold|Олена Калитяк Девіс}} | image = | caption = | image_size = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|09|16}} | birth_place = United States | language = English | nationality = American | education = Wayne State University, University of Michigan Law School, and Vermont College of Fine Arts | genre = Poetry | movement = | notableworks = ''And Her Soul Out Of Nothing'' | awards = Brittingham Prize in Poetry, 1997; Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, 1996 | portaldisp = y }}
'''Olena Kalytiak Davis'''{{efn|{{langx|uk|Олена Калитяк Девіс|{{transliteration|uk|ukrainian|Olena Kalytiak Devis}}}}}} (born September 16, 1963) is a Ukrainian-American poet. Davis is the author of five poetry collections, her most recent being ''Late Summer Ode''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gordinier |first=Jeff |date=2022-10-04 |title=The Crisis After the Midlife Crisis, Captured in Verse |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/books/review/late-summer-ode-olena-kalytiak-davis.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004092620/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/books/review/late-summer-ode-olena-kalytiak-davis.html |archive-date=2022-10-04 |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=New York Times}}</ref> Her collection ''The Poem She Didn't Write And Other Poems'' (2014, Copper Canyon Press) was a 2014 Lannan Literary Selection. Her first book, ''And Her Soul Out Of Nothing,'' won the Brittingham Prize (University of Wisconsin Press). Her second book, the cult classic ''shattered sonnets love cards and other off and back handed importunities'' (2003, Tin House Books), was republished by Copper Canyon Press in 2014.
Her honors include a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry{{r|Gugg}} and a 1996 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award in poetry.{{r|Jaffe}}
Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including ''AGNI,'' ''A Small Number'', ''New England Review, Tin House, Poetry Northwest, Michigan Quarterly Review, Field, Indiana Review, Post Road Magazine'' and in anthologies including ''Best American Poetry 1995'' and ''Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century'' (Sarabande Books).
Davis is a first-generation Ukrainian-American, and she grew up in Detroit.{{r|Chaisson}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Olena Kalytiak Davis |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/olena-kalytiak-davis |website=Poetry Foundation|date=13 July 2023 }}</ref> She was educated at Wayne State University, University of Michigan Law School, and Vermont College of Fine Arts.<ref>{{Cite web |last=nvu2021 |date=2015-10-27 |title=Poet Olena Kalytiak Davis to Read from Work |url=https://www.northernvermont.edu/poet-olena-kalytiak-davis-to-read-from-work/ |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=Northern Vermont University |language=en}}</ref> She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review. She has lived in San Francisco, Prague, Lviv, Paris, Chicago, and the Yup'ik community of Bethel, Alaska, and currently lives in Anchorage, Alaska,{{r|Vermette}} where she works as a lawyer.{{r|Smith}}
==Published works== *1997 ''And Her Soul Out of Nothing'' (winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, published by the University of Wisconsin Press) *2003 ''Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off-And-Back Handed Importunities'' (poetry) Portland, OR:Tin House Books. {{ISBN|1-58234-352-7}} *2009 ''On the Kitchen Table from Which Everything Has Been Hastily Removed''. Published by Hollyridge Press. {{ISBN|978-0-9799588-8-5}} *2014 ''The Poem She Didn't Write And Other Poems'', Published by Copper Canyon Press. {{ISBN|978-1-55659-459-5}} *2014 ''shattered sonnets love cards and other back handed importunities'', Republished by Copper Canyon Press. {{ISBN|978-1-55659-440-3}} *2022 ''Late Summer Ode'', Published by Copper Canyon Press. {{ISBN|978-1556596476}}
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==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Gugg>{{cite web | title = Olena Kalytiak Davis | publisher = Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | url = https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/olena-kalytiak-davis/ | access-date = 2022-11-11 }}</ref> <ref name=Jaffe>{{cite web | title = Winner, Olena Kalytiak Davis | publisher = The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards | year = | url = https://www.ronajaffefoundation.org/1996/Winner/Olena-Kalytiak-Davis | accessdate = 2023-01-02 }}</ref> <ref name=Chaisson> {{cite news | last = Chaisson | first = Dan | title = You and Me Both | newspaper = The New Yorker | date = 1 December 2014 | url = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/08/you-and-me-both | accessdate = 20 April 2020 }}</ref> <ref name=Vermette> {{cite news | last = Vermette | first = Danielle | title = Playing chicken at the book bash | newspaper = Oregon Artswatch | date = 9 April 2019 | url = https://www.orartswatch.org/playing-chicken-at-the-book-bash/ | accessdate = 20 April 2020 }}</ref> <ref name=Smith> {{cite news | last = Smith | first = Rich | title = Take a Break and Read a Fucking Poem: "Not This" by Olena Kalytiak Davis | newspaper = The Stranger | date = 17 April 2020 | url = https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/04/17/43446189/take-a-break-and-read-a-fucking-poem-not-this-by-olena-kalytiak-davis | accessdate = 25 April 2020 }}</ref> }}
==External links== * [https://rhubarbissusan.blogspot.com/2006/02/olena-kalytiak-davis-francesca-can-too.html ''rhubarb is susan'' > A Review of Davis' work] * [http://www.tinhouse.com/books/catalog_shattered_sonn.htm ''Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, And Other Off-And-Back Handed Importunities''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517094258/http://www.tinhouse.com/books/catalog_shattered_sonn.htm |date=2008-05-17 }} at Tin House Books * [http://news.bookweb.org/features/2447.html American Booksellers Association > Bookselling This Week: Features: ''Poet Olena Kalytiak Davis Talks About Spring, T.S. Eliot, and Wonderoos'']
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