Anastasia Bortsvadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and immigrated to the United States at age ten, carrying memories of war, family rituals, and a deep love for a distant homeland. Her poetry explores these fractured landscapes of displacement and belonging. Suli is her debut chapbook and introduces the first queer Georgian-American voice in published poetry. Her poem “Pomegranate Seeds” has appeared in Epistemic Literary Magazine. Beyond poetry, Bortsvadze is a master’s student at New York University, a sculptor, and a black belt in taekwondo. She speaks four languages and maintains a five-year running list of everything she loves. She lives in Brooklyn, her chosen home, and can often be found hosting supras for friends, believing that the best poetry happens around a crowded table.
PRAISE:
In her debut chapbook Suli, Anastasia Bortsvadze writes from the charged space between ancestry and becoming. These poems examine the private negotiations of identity: what we carry forward, what we choose to leave behind, and how we make room for desire, tenderness, and defiance. With a clear-eyed lyricism, Bortsvadze turns the search for belonging into an act of self-definition. Suli is a striking work from a queer Georgian-American poet, and a vital new contribution to contemporary poetry.
—Leah Huete de Maines
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