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Alissa Valles

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Alissa Valles was born in Amsterdam, raised in the United States and the Netherlands, and educated at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London. She has published poetry under the name Alissa Leigh. Her debut poetry collection is Orphan Fire .

Valles is the editor and co-translator of Zbigniew Herbert’s Collected Poems 1956–1998 as well as Herbert’s The Collected Prose 1948–1998 . She has contributed to Polish Writers on Writing and New European Poets .

A recipient of the Poetry Magazine Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship and the Bess Hokin Prize, Valles has worked for the BBC, the Dutch Institute of War Documentation, the Jewish Historical Institute, and Warsaw’s La Strada International and has served as an editor for the online literary journal Words Without Borders.

Alissa Valles

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Alissa Valles was born in Amsterdam, raised in the United States and the Netherlands, and educated at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London. She has published poetry under the name Alissa Leigh. Her debut poetry collection is Orphan Fire .

Valles is the editor and co-translator of Zbigniew Herbert’s Collected Poems 1956–1998 as well as Herbert’s The Collected Prose 1948–1998 . She has contributed to Polish Writers on Writing and New European Poets .

A recipient of the Poetry Magazine Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship and the Bess Hokin Prize, Valles has worked for the BBC, the Dutch Institute of War Documentation, the Jewish Historical Institute, and Warsaw’s La Strada International and has served as an editor for the online literary journal Words Without Borders.

Books from Alissa Valles

The Collected Poems, 1956-1998

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Our Life Grows

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Memories of Starobielsk

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The Collected Poems, 1956-1998

Firebird (New York Review Books)

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