Cavanagh’s many awards for translation include the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation, the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize for Outstanding Literary Translation, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and the Harold Langdon Prize for Translation from the Academy of American Poets. Cavanagh’s work has also appeared in
The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and other periodicals. She is the author of
Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West (2010), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and
Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition (1995), which received the AATSEEL Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book in Slavic Literature.