Luisa Muradyan is originally from Odesa, Ukraine and came to the United States as a refugee in 1990. She is the winner of the 2017 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize and is the author of American Radiance (University of Nebraska). She is a member of the Cheburashka Collective and is a former Editor of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. She holds a PhD in Poetry from the University of Houston and an MFA in poetry from Texas State University. Additional writing can be found in the Threepenny Review, Best American Poetry, OnlyPoems,and the Sun among others.

Luisa Muradyan is originally from Odesa, Ukraine and came to the United States as a refugee in 1990. She is the winner of the 2017 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize and is the author of American Radiance (University of Nebraska). She is a member of the Cheburashka Collective and is a former Editor of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. She holds a PhD in Poetry from the University of Houston and an MFA in poetry from Texas State University. Additional writing can be found in the Threepenny Review, Best American Poetry, OnlyPoems,and the Sun among others.