Paul S Ukrainets
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poet/writer/translator

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Paul S Ukrainets is a poet/writer, translator, and educator. Their work studies state violence, private and public languages, surveillance technologies and (self-)perception. 

They grew up in Russia and the UK, and now live in Oakland, CA on unceded Ohlone, Lisjan, and Muwekma land. 

Honors

• Good Hart Artist-in-Residence (2025)
  
• Poetry at Round Top festival fellow (2024)
• Patricia Cleary Miller Poetry Prize finalist (2023)
  
• Princeton in Asia Media Fellow in Laos (2019-20)
  

Paul previously worked as an Events Director and Hybrid Genre Editor at Bat City Review and read/copyedited for Inlandia’s Hillary Gravendyk Book Prize. Paul has taught youth writing workshops for The Library Foundation and Austin Bat Cave. 

They hold an MFA in Poetry from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin and a BA in English from Colorado College. 

(Paul also used to produce/edit narrative audio at KRCC, an NPR station in Colorado — you can listen to some of their work here.)

Paul is materially and ideologically committed to a free Palestine.