Mary Jane White

Mary Jane White, MFA Iowa Writers’ Workshop, NEA Fellowships (1979, 1985 in poetry and translation), awarded scholarships to Bread Loaf (1979, 2016) and Squaw Valley Community of Writers (2006). Starry Sky to Starry Sky (1988, Holy Cow! Press) contains translations of Tsvetaeva first published in The American Poetry Review and Willow Springs. Recent Tsvetaeva translations include: New Year’s, an elegy for Rilke, (Adastra Press, Massachusetts); Poem of the Hill ( Summer 2007 The New England Review); Poem of the End (Winter 2008 The Hudson Review), reprinted in From a Terrace in Prague, (Prague 2011) and Poets Translate Poets, (Syracuse 2013).