Olga Mexina

Olga Mexina is an award-winning poet. She was born in what is now St. Petersburg, Russia, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Her book of translations of the Russian poet Boris Ryzhy is forthcoming from Zephyr Press in March 2027. Mexina’s poetry won the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition in 2025, was a finalist in Narrative’s Sixteenth Annual Poetry Contest, The Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition in 2024, the 2025 Bridport Prize, the 2025 ALTA Travel Fellowship, and was an Editors’ Final Round Pick for the 2024 Plentitudes Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Narrative, Boulevard, Southword, Red Wheelbarrow, and elsewhere, and her translations have appeared in various magazines including Asymptote, Resistance and Opposition Arts Review, and Angime. She is a Ph.D. candidate and Interviews Editor for Southeast Review, and she lives in Tallahassee, Florida.