Oriana Ivy was born in Poland, and came to this country when she was 17. Her poems, essays, book reviews, and translations include Poetry, Ploughshares, Best American Poetry, Nimrod, Spoon River Review, The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, and many others.

She’s the prize winning author of the chapbooks April Snow (Finishing Line Press) and From a New World (Paper Nautilus), and has a new one, How to Jump from a Moving Train, forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press. A former journalist and community college instructor, she leads the online San Diego Poetry Salon. Her poetry-and-culture blog, oriana-poetry.blogspot.com, has gained an international audience.