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Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six years old. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon and is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf and TENT Conferences as well as the Auschwitz Jewish Center. Julia is the author of The Bear Who Ate the Stars (Split Lip Press, 2014) and her poems can be found in Gulf Coast, Muzzle, and Sixth Finch, among others. She is also Editor-in-Chief of Construction Magazine and writes a blog about motherhood.
This poem is after Sarah Kaplan and Nick Kirkpatrick’s article, In the eerie emptiness of Chernobyl’s abandoned towns, wildlife is flourishing - Washington Post
