Valzhyna Mort is the author of three poetry collections, most recently: Music for the Dead and Resurrected (FSG 2020), named one of the best poetry books of 2020 by The New York Times, and the winner of the International Griffin Poetry Prize and the UNT Rilke Prize. Mort is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, the Lannan Foundation, the NEA, and the Amy Clampitt Foundation. Valzhyna Mort is an Associate Professor at Cornell University. Born in Minsk, Belarus, she writes in English and Belarusian.