Originally from Moldova, Ruth Madievsky is a novelist, poet, and essayist living in Los Angeles. Her debut novel, All-Night Pharmacy, is forthcoming from Catapult on 7/11/2023. Her debut poetry collection, Emergency Brake (Tavern Books, 2016), was the winner of the Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series and spent five months on Small Press Distribution's Poetry Bestsellers list. She writes a personal essay column for Catapult, "Eldest Immigrant Daughter."
Her work appears in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Harper's Bazaar, Tin House, Guernica, them, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Poem-A-Day, 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 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 primary care clinical pharmacist.
She has recently completed a second poetry collection.
Her literary agent is Mina Hamedi at Janklow and Nesbit, and her film/TV agent is Will Watkins at CAA. Her publicists are Megan Fishmann and Sarah Jean Grimm at Catapult.
She tweets her existential longings at @ruthmadievsky.
Her work appears in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Harper's Bazaar, Tin House, Guernica, them, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Poem-A-Day, 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 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 primary care clinical pharmacist.
She has recently completed a second poetry collection.
Her literary agent is Mina Hamedi at Janklow and Nesbit, and her film/TV agent is Will Watkins at CAA. Her publicists are Megan Fishmann and Sarah Jean Grimm at Catapult.
She tweets her existential longings at @ruthmadievsky.
