Donna Stonecipher

Donna Stonecipher is an American poet.

Life
She grew up in Seattle and Tehran, and lived in Prague from 1994 to 1998. She graduated from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, with an MFA in 2001. She completed her PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.

She has published five books of poetry and one of prose, as well as several translations. Her poems have appeared in Paris Review, Denver Quarterly, the Indiana Review, New American Writing, SAND Journal  and Conjunctions.

She translates from French and German. Her translations have appeared in Circumference, Action Yes, and chicagopostmodernpoetry.

The New York Times named her 2018 collection Transaction Histories one of the 10 best poetry books of the year.

In 2020, her book Model City sold hundreds of copies after an enthusiastic review in Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast. A bilingual version, translated in French by Jérémy Victor Robert, was published in February 2021.

Her 2023 collection The Ruins of Nostalgia was listed by NPR as a best book of the year in their "Books We Love" feature.

She has lived in Berlin, Germany since 2004.

Awards

 * 2015 NEA Translation Grant
 * 2007 National Poetry Series
 * 2002 Contemporary Poetry Series

Poems

 * "Inlay (Kafka)", Gut Cult Issue 7
 * "White Mouth", Conjunctions
 * "Model City", Paris Review

Translations

 * "My Private Leningrad", No Man's Land, Andrej Glusgold
 * "Landscape", No Man's Land, Andrej Glusgold
 * "My Private Leningrad", No Man's Land, Andrej Glusgold
 * "Landscape", No Man's Land, Andrej Glusgold

Criticism

 * "On Cole Swensen’s Ours", Jacket 26, 2008
 * "On Cole Swensen’s Ours", Jacket 26, 2008