Sasha Burshteyn is a poet.

Bio:

Sasha Burshteyn was born in Russia and raised in Brooklyn and Donbas. Her poetry has appeared in  The Baffler, The Yale Review, The Paris Review Daily, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.  She holds degrees from Amherst College and New York University, where she was a Goldwater Fellow. Her work has received support from the Hawthornden, Saltonstall, Tables of Contents, National Geographic, and the Watson Foundation. A 2026 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry, she is the translations editor at Four Way Review, and a Visiting Scholar at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU.  




Contact:

sburshteyn@protonmail.com 
@sashabursh

Poems


American Chordata
, “Occult Instability,” summer 2026

Kenyon Review, Three Poems, fall 2025

The Common, Three Poems,  fall 2025

Bennington Review “Home Remedy,” fall 2025

“Lamination” and “Panorama of Light,” Permanent Record Anthology. Nightboat Books,  winter 2025

The Baffler, Auto Icon,” fall 2025

Gulf Coast, “the barely known,” spring 2025

The Yale Review  “Ploughshares to Swords,” fall 2023

Bat City Review, Three Poems, summer 2023

Four Way Review, Two Poems, spring 2023

The Paris Review Daily, Western Union,” spring 2022

Copper Nickel, “Kyiv Spring,” spring 2020