Description: The World Is Not Made combines three distinct narratives: about contemporary artist Inna in France and war-torn Ukraine, revolutionary Oleksii on the steppe fighting with anarchists, and peasant Lesia in the mountains of Austro-Hungary.
Brief description: Ali Kinsella has been translating from Ukrainian for thirteen years. With co-translator Dzvinia Orlowsky, she was a finalist for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize, granted a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and shortlisted for the 2025 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.