Biography
Aviya KushnerÌýgrew up in a Hebrew-speaking home in New York. She is the author ofÌýWolf Lamb BombÌý(Orison Books, 2021),Ìýwinner of The Chicago Review of Books Award in Poetry, aÌýNew York TimesÌýNew & Noteworthy selection, andÌýForewordÌýINDIES Finalist; andÌýThe Grammar of GodÌý(Spiegel & Grau/ Penguin Random House 2015),Ìýa National Jewish Book Award Finalist, Sami Rohr Prize Finalist, and one ofÌýPublishers’ Weekly’s Top Religion Stories of the Year. She is a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts fellow inÌý.ÌýÌý
She isÌýThe Forward’sÌýlanguage columnist, and her essays have appeared inÌýLongreads, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal,ÌýandÌýThe Wilson Quarterly.ÌýHer work has been supported by the Howard Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture. She serves on the executive committee in nonfiction at the Modern Languages Association, the board of the American Literary Translators Association, the advisory board of the Jewish Languages Project and the advisory board for Bloomsbury’s series in creative writing. She is an associate professor at Â鶹Íø, where she directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing.
Degrees
B.A., Writing Johns Hopkins University 1995
M.A., Creative Writing Boston University 1998
M.F.A., English University of Iowa 2005