Rooted and Reduced to Dust by Ivy Raff

So begins Ivy Raff‘s debut poetry chapbook, which plumbs the depths of movement, of growth: from one generation to the next, from Eastern Europe across America, from sickness to health.  With braided fearlessness and vulnerability, Raff bridges the past with the heartbreaking tenderness of today.

Ivy Raff is the author of What Remains/Qué queda (Editorial DALYA, forthcoming 2026), a bilingual English/Spanish poetry collection that won the Alberola International Poetry Prize, and Rooted and Reduced to Dust (Finishing Line Press, 2024), hailed by Pulitzer finalist Bruce Smith as “lacerating, fearless.”  Poems and translations appear in such journals as Ninth Letter, Poetry Northwest, Iron Horse Literary Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Electric Literature, and International Poetry Review, as well as anthologies London Independent Story Prize Anthology (LISP, 2023), and Aesthetica Creative Writing Prize Annual (Aesthetica, 2023).   Her Best of the Net-nominated work has garnered support from the Colgate Writers’ Conference, Hudson Valley Writers Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, the New York Mills Cultural Center, and Under the Volcano.  Ivy serves artist communities as MacDowell’s Senior Digital Systems Strategist.  For the last decade, her advocacy efforts have focused on Palestinian Liberation.  Read more at www.ivyraff.com.