John Hennessy is the author of three collections, Exit Garden State, Coney Island Pilgrims and Bridge and Tunnel, and his poems appear in The Best American Poetry 2024, The Believer, The New Republic, Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Yale Review. With Ostap Kin he is the translator of A New Orthography, selected poems by Serhiy Zhadan, finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and co-winner of the Derek Walcott Prize, the anthology Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond, and Set Change, selected poems by Yuri Andrukhovych. Hennessy is the poetry editor of The Common and teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
