Valentina Gnup 's poetry collection, Ruined Music, was published by Grayson Books in March 2024. In 2023 she won the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award for Poetry and second place in the (NYC Yeats' Society) Yeats Prize for poetry. In 2019, she won the Lascaux Prize in Poetry; in 2017, she won the Ekphrastic Challenge from Rattle; in 2015, she won the Rattle Reader's Choice Award; and in 2011, she won the Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals including December, Brooklyn Review, Nimrod, and The New Guard. She lives in Oakland, California.

Other poems on the web by Valentina Gnup:
"It's a Sad Story"
"The Work of Flying"
"Morning at the Welfare Office"
"We Speak of August"
"American Meditation"
"When You Are Invisible, You Can Say Anything"

Valentina Gnup's Website.

About Ruined Music:

"Poet Valentina Gnup summons a full chord made from longing, grace, and awe. In this astonishing collection, we experience wonder and acceptance, desire and deliverance as if in real time; these poems breathe and dance. Deftly, Gnup sways with us through a songbook of the heart, hitting every note, the beautiful and the ruined. You will want to keep dancing, you will reach out for her long after."
—Brad Davis

"Poet Valentina Gnup summons a full chord made from longing, grace, and awe. In this astonishing collection, we experience wonder and acceptance, desire and deliverance as if in real time; these poems breathe and dance. Deftly, Gnup sways with us through a songbook of the heart, hitting every note, the beautiful and the ruined. You will want to keep dancing, you will reach out for her long after."
—Brendan Constantine