About the Muser

Daria Knurenko is a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania studying Comparative Literature and Art History. She grew up in Chernihiv, Ukraine, and speaks Ukrainian, English, French, German, and Russian. She translates from and into English, French, Ukrainian, and Russian, focusing on nineteenth and twentieth century poetry. Having lived in different countries has informed her interest in the ways people communicate across languages and cultures, as well as literary translation, which brings these notions together.