Rozalija Grace   is a Russian and Armenian diasporic poet  and fabulist  from southern Alaska whose writing is rooted on the North Pacific coast and the Great Eurasian Steppe, in her marriage and her Orthodox faith, and through the legacies of her Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Armenian, and Qazaq ancestors. For this work, she has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and featured in Dappled Things, Rust & Moth, Public Orthodoxy, ROAR, and elsewhere.

Committed to uplifting women’s writing and to holding space for conversations around faith and doubt, she currently serves as a poetry editor  for Psaltery & Lyre (having formerly edited for Cordella and other magazines). Her efforts as a translator  of early Soviet gay, women’s, and minority voices from Russian and Yiddish have been featured in Tern, In geveb, and elsewhere, in addition to being nominated for Best Literary Translations.

Outside of literary pursuits, Grace’s work as a researcher  and activist  is shaped by her professional training as a librarian  and her academic formation as an historian  and theologian . She is particularly passionate about preserving the history of Russian America, healing wounds in post-Soviet memory, and empowering women and gay believers in the Church, bringing Eastern Orthodox perspective to the broader “inclusive orthodoxy” movement.

She lives in Minneapolis with her Hungarian American novelist partner (the real genius) and her dombyra (the real Qazaq), believing that, one day, Russia will be free.