Originally from Moldova, RUTH MADIEVSKY is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist living in Boston. Her debut poetry collection, Emergency Brake, was published by Tavern Books as their 2015 Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series selection. Emergency Brake has spent five months on Small Press Distribution's Poetry Bestsellers List and is one of their top 30 bestselling books in any genre of the last several years. Ruth Madievsky's poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poem-A-Day, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. 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. Currently, she is working on her second poetry collection and a novel-in-stories about urban loneliness and the opiate epidemic. 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. When she is not writing, she works as an HIV and oncology pharmacist.
Message Ruth at the "Contact" page if you are interested in booking her for a reading, would like her to visit/skype into your class, or just want to say hey. She tweets her existential longings at @ruthmadievsky.
Message Ruth at the "Contact" page if you are interested in booking her for a reading, would like her to visit/skype into your class, or just want to say hey. She tweets her existential longings at @ruthmadievsky.
