Sonya Arko

Sonya Arko earned her BA in English from the University of Iowa, and her MA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University. In both 2007 and 2008 she was named a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.  Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in elimae, The Basilica Review, and Bateau, among others.  She currently teaches in the Department of English at Harper College, and runs an annual reading series at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago.