Sasha Burshteyn is a poet.
Her poetry appears in The Yale Review, the Paris Review Daily, Four Way Review, Copper Nickel, Pigeon Pages, and elsewhere.
She serves as the Translations Editor at Four Way Review.
Sasha received her MFA from New York University, where she was a Goldwater Fellow and Translations Editor at the Washington Square Review. She was a 2022 winner of the 92Y Discovery Contest. In 2018, she lived and worked in eastern Europe, where she developed documentary poems about the Seven Natural Wonders of Ukraine with support from National Geographic. In 2016-2017, she was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. She spent her fellowship year talking with people about social upheaval in Ireland, South Africa, India, Georgia, and Guatemala.
Sasha was born in Russia and raised in Brooklyn and Eastern Ukraine.
Get in touch:
sburshteyn [at] protonmail.com
@sashabursh