Ruth Madievsky is the author of national bestselling novel, All-Night Pharmacy, winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction, the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. An Indie Next Pick, All-Night Pharmacy was hailed by the New York Times as "tender and hilarious" and was named a Best/Most Anticipated 2023 Book by over 45 venues, including NPR, The Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Vulture, and Buzzfeed.
Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry appear in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Harper's Bazaar, GQ, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Emergency Brake, spent five months on Small Press Distribution's Poetry Bestsellers list. She was the winner of The American Poetry Review's Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, The Iowa Review's Tim McGinnis Award for fiction, and a Tin House scholarship in poetry. She is a founding member of the Cheburashka Collective, a community of women and nonbinary writers whose identity has been shaped by immigration from the Soviet Union to the United States.
She has recently completed a second poetry collection and is at work on a second novel. Originally from Moldova, she lives in Los Angeles, where she works as an HIV and primary care clinical pharmacist.
Her literary agent is Mina Hamedi at Janklow and Nesbit, and her film/TV agent is Will Watkins at CAA. Her publicist is Megan Fishmann at Catapult.
She tweets her existential longings at @ruthmadievsky.
Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry appear in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Harper's Bazaar, GQ, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Emergency Brake, spent five months on Small Press Distribution's Poetry Bestsellers list. She was the winner of The American Poetry Review's Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, The Iowa Review's Tim McGinnis Award for fiction, and a Tin House scholarship in poetry. She is a founding member of the Cheburashka Collective, a community of women and nonbinary writers whose identity has been shaped by immigration from the Soviet Union to the United States.
She has recently completed a second poetry collection and is at work on a second novel. Originally from Moldova, she lives in Los Angeles, where she works as an HIV and primary care clinical pharmacist.
Her literary agent is Mina Hamedi at Janklow and Nesbit, and her film/TV agent is Will Watkins at CAA. Her publicist is Megan Fishmann at Catapult.
She tweets her existential longings at @ruthmadievsky.