Iya Kiva is a Ukrainian poet, translator, journalist, and critic. She is the award-winning author of two poetry collections, A Little Further from Heaven (2018) and The First Page of Winter (2019); she writes in both Russian and Ukrainian. Kiva’s poems have appeared in English translation in Asymptote, Literary Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, Words Without Borders, The White Review, and others. Because of the war in Donbas she had to relocate to Kyiv in 2014.
