Originally from Moldova, RUTH MADIEVSKY is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist living in Los Angeles. 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 IOWA REVIEW, GULF COAST, PRAIRIE SCHOONER, ZYZZYVA, RATTLE, THE MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW, BLACK WARRIOR REVIEW, 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. She is also a chapbook reader for GOLD LINE PRESS and a pharmacist training to specialize in chronic disease management. Currently, she is working on her second poetry collection, a collection of linked short stories about urban loneliness and the opiate epidemic, and a book of essays.
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.
