Ruth Madievsky

Originally from Moldova, Ruth Madievsky is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist living in Boston. Her debut poetry collection, Emergency Brake (Tavern Books, 2016), was the winner of the Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Tin House, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, ZYZZYVA, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Poem-A-Day, and other outlets. She is a founding member of the Cheburashka Collective, a community of women and nonbinary writers whose identity has been shaped by emigration from the Soviet Union to the United States.