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Ilya Kaminsky Biography
Soviet-born poet, translator, academic, and literary critic known for Dancing in Odessa and other works. He was a recipient of both the Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Whiting Writers’ Award.
He received a B.A. from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the University of California’s Hastings College of Law.
He became mostly deaf at age four.
He married Katie Farris, an American author and academic.
He and Dana Gioia both lived in California at various points during their literary careers.
Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union (now Ukraine), on April 18, 1977 to a Jewish family. He became hard of hearing at the age of four due to mumps. He began to write poetry as a teenager in Odessa, publishing a chapbook in Russian entitled The Blessed City. His family was granted political asylum to live in the United States in 1993 due to anti-semitism in Ukraine. He started to write poems in English in 1994.
Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977) is a hard-of-hearing, USSR-born, Ukrainian-Russian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He is best-known for his poetry collections Dancing in Odessa and Deaf Republic, which have earned him several awards.
His first book in English, Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004), received several literary awards.
Kaminsky has a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He has worked as a professor at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts since 2018.
What's Ilya Kaminsky Net Worth 2024
| Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
| Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
Ilya Kaminsky Family
| Father's Name | Not Available |
| Mother's Name | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Available |
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