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. Emergency Brake is one of Small Press Distribution's top 30 bestselling books in any genre of the last several years and has spent five months on their Poetry Bestsellers list. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Tin House, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poem-A-Day, ZYZZYVA, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, 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.
Ruth has recently completed a second poetry collection, There Is No Lake. She is also working on 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.
For inquiries regarding representation, publication, readings, classroom visits, or just to say hey, message Ruth at the "Contact" page.
She tweets her existential longings at @ruthmadievsky.
Ruth has recently completed a second poetry collection, There Is No Lake. She is also working on 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.
For inquiries regarding representation, publication, readings, classroom visits, or just to say hey, message Ruth at the "Contact" page.
She tweets her existential longings at @ruthmadievsky.
