Valentin’s Story: A Refugee Center in Odesa

Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo) and Deaf Republic (Graywolf). He's co-editor and co-translator of Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (Alice James) and Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (Harper Collins) among other books. He received The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry and Neustadt International Literature Prize.

Ilya Kaminsky

Diana Grebneva is the co-founder of the Hostinna Khata (Hospitable Hut)&nbsp;refugee center in Odesa, Ukraine: <a href="http://www.hostinnakhata.org/">www.hostinnakhata.org</a>