Tarnawsky, Karina

Yuriy Tarnawsky has authored twenty collections of poetry, eight books of fiction, seven plays, a biography, and numerous articles and translations. An engineer and linguist by training, he has worked as computer scientist specializing in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence at IBM Corporation as well as Professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture at Columbia University in New York City. He was born in Ukraine and raised in the West. He writes in Ukrainian and English and resides in the vicinity of New York City. His English-language books include the novel, Three Blondes