BOOKS
Emergency Brake (Debut poetry collection published by Tavern Books, 2016)
NONFICTION
The New York Times
Is This the End of Progress on H.I.V.?
The Atlantic
What to Read If You're Angry About the Election
Eight Books to Comfort You When You're Lonely
Six Books That Show No One Can Hurt You Like A Sibling
The War in Ukraine Is Dividing Lifelong Friends
Good Housekeeping
How Shopping for a Wedding Dress Connected Me to My Heritage
The Los Angeles Times
Speaking Russian Doesn't Make Me A Supporter of Putin's War
Harper's Bazaar
AIDS History Is A Remedy
The Cut
Could This Be Melissa Broder's Most Audacious Sex Scene?
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
I Am Your Immigrant Parent And You Will Accept My Byzantine Displays of Love
Catapult
Translating the Immigrant Experience Into Fiction
Lessons on Diasporic Identity from Meme Culture (also featured in Memoir Monday and Foreign Bodies)
Bridging My Family's Language Barrier, One Filthy Russian Idiom at a Time
Unlearning the Shame Culture of the Former Soviet Union
Guernica
Girls on the Playground
Also featured in Memoir Monday, Literary Hub's daily newsletter, The Rumpus's "This Week In Essays," Entropy's Best Essays of 2020-2021
Literary Hub
Ruth Madievsky on Burying Her Darlings in a Cemetery of Bangers
Why Does Goodreads Have a Problem with Fiction by Women, About Women?
The Creepy Dissonance of Reading Trick Mirror in a ‘Self-Care’ Book Club
From Construction to Teaching: Seven Writers On Their Day Jobs (contributor)
them
The Story of HIV/AIDS Is Still Being Written. These 7 Books Are Proof
Our Favorite LGBTQ+ Books of 2022 (contributor)
Poets & Writers
How to write when you'd rather be online
Salon
The right's newest culture war target: HIV treatment isn't simply collateral damage
The Los Angeles Review of Books
What Were These Women to Me
Paper Brigade
Soviet stories: grappling with a legacy of trauma through fiction
Electric Literature
7 Books About Reckoning with Intergenerational Trauma
The Millions
A Year in Reading (2023)
Lambda Literary
On Becoming An HIV Pharmacist
Hey, Alma
11 Jewish authors on the Jewish books that shaped them (contributor)
The Believer
Underway
Is This the End of Progress on H.I.V.?
The Atlantic
What to Read If You're Angry About the Election
Eight Books to Comfort You When You're Lonely
Six Books That Show No One Can Hurt You Like A Sibling
The War in Ukraine Is Dividing Lifelong Friends
Good Housekeeping
How Shopping for a Wedding Dress Connected Me to My Heritage
The Los Angeles Times
Speaking Russian Doesn't Make Me A Supporter of Putin's War
Harper's Bazaar
AIDS History Is A Remedy
The Cut
Could This Be Melissa Broder's Most Audacious Sex Scene?
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
I Am Your Immigrant Parent And You Will Accept My Byzantine Displays of Love
Catapult
Translating the Immigrant Experience Into Fiction
Lessons on Diasporic Identity from Meme Culture (also featured in Memoir Monday and Foreign Bodies)
Bridging My Family's Language Barrier, One Filthy Russian Idiom at a Time
Unlearning the Shame Culture of the Former Soviet Union
Guernica
Girls on the Playground
Also featured in Memoir Monday, Literary Hub's daily newsletter, The Rumpus's "This Week In Essays," Entropy's Best Essays of 2020-2021
Literary Hub
Ruth Madievsky on Burying Her Darlings in a Cemetery of Bangers
Why Does Goodreads Have a Problem with Fiction by Women, About Women?
The Creepy Dissonance of Reading Trick Mirror in a ‘Self-Care’ Book Club
From Construction to Teaching: Seven Writers On Their Day Jobs (contributor)
them
The Story of HIV/AIDS Is Still Being Written. These 7 Books Are Proof
Our Favorite LGBTQ+ Books of 2022 (contributor)
Poets & Writers
How to write when you'd rather be online
Salon
The right's newest culture war target: HIV treatment isn't simply collateral damage
The Los Angeles Review of Books
What Were These Women to Me
Paper Brigade
Soviet stories: grappling with a legacy of trauma through fiction
Electric Literature
7 Books About Reckoning with Intergenerational Trauma
The Millions
A Year in Reading (2023)
Lambda Literary
On Becoming An HIV Pharmacist
Hey, Alma
11 Jewish authors on the Jewish books that shaped them (contributor)
The Believer
Underway
INTERVIEWS BY RUTH
The Cut
“Anora" star Mikey Madison Is Having A Fairy-Tale Year
Don't Try This at Home: An Interview with Kate Berlant & Jacqueline Novak
GQ
When Is A “Problematic Fave” Actually A Monster? An Interview with Claire Dederer
Vanity Fair
Kimberly King Parsons Wanted to Read Books about Queer Motherhood, So She Wrote One
Esquire
Writing Through the War in Ukraine (Interview with Sasha Vasilyuk)
Elle
Erin Somers Has Written the Funniest Book about Infidelity You'll Read All Year
The Creative Independent
Interview with Aria Aber
Interview with Diana Arterian
Them
Rasheed Newson's Debut Novel Retells the Early Years of AIDS in New York City
Interview Magazine
Garth Greenwell on Art, Sex, and the Human Urge for Self-Destruction
The Millions
Sensory Overload: The Millions Interviews Liska Jacobs
BOMB
Obsession and Urgency: Jill Bialosky Interviewed by Ruth Madievsky
Douglas Manuel interviewed by Ruth Madievsky
Poets & Writers
Ukrainian Children Turn to Poetry (Profile of Odesa Poetry Studio)
Q&A: Translating Ukrainian Voices (Interview with Zenia Tompkins)
Kveller
Soviet Jewish Trauma Is at The Heart of This Darkly Comic Novel (Interview with Katya Apekina)
Catapult
Michelle Hart Is Queering the Campus Novel
Electric Literature
Meet the Champion of Debut Authors: An Interview with Adam Vitcavage
“Anora" star Mikey Madison Is Having A Fairy-Tale Year
Don't Try This at Home: An Interview with Kate Berlant & Jacqueline Novak
GQ
When Is A “Problematic Fave” Actually A Monster? An Interview with Claire Dederer
Vanity Fair
Kimberly King Parsons Wanted to Read Books about Queer Motherhood, So She Wrote One
Esquire
Writing Through the War in Ukraine (Interview with Sasha Vasilyuk)
Elle
Erin Somers Has Written the Funniest Book about Infidelity You'll Read All Year
The Creative Independent
Interview with Aria Aber
Interview with Diana Arterian
Them
Rasheed Newson's Debut Novel Retells the Early Years of AIDS in New York City
Interview Magazine
Garth Greenwell on Art, Sex, and the Human Urge for Self-Destruction
The Millions
Sensory Overload: The Millions Interviews Liska Jacobs
BOMB
Obsession and Urgency: Jill Bialosky Interviewed by Ruth Madievsky
Douglas Manuel interviewed by Ruth Madievsky
Poets & Writers
Ukrainian Children Turn to Poetry (Profile of Odesa Poetry Studio)
Q&A: Translating Ukrainian Voices (Interview with Zenia Tompkins)
Kveller
Soviet Jewish Trauma Is at The Heart of This Darkly Comic Novel (Interview with Katya Apekina)
Catapult
Michelle Hart Is Queering the Campus Novel
Electric Literature
Meet the Champion of Debut Authors: An Interview with Adam Vitcavage
SELECTED POETRY
The American Poetry Review (winner of the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize):
Wormhole
Tin House:
The Knowing
Because It's October
Kenyon Review:
Ficus (audio version here; reprinted on Poets.org here)
Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day:
Fog
You Look Up Pictures of Icelandic Ponies
Electrons
The Rumpus
In High School
In High School
ZYZZYVA:
Hotel Bar
Poetry Society of America:
Propofol
Jewish Currents:
Dybbuk
West Branch:
Hotel (reprinted on Verse Daily)
Springhouse Journal:
Everyone I Love Is Drafting Their Own Eulogies
One Spring
Tupelo Quarterly (Finalist in TQ5 Poetry contest):
Box of Shadows
Shadowboxing
Wormhole
Tin House:
The Knowing
Because It's October
Kenyon Review:
Ficus (audio version here; reprinted on Poets.org here)
Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day:
Fog
You Look Up Pictures of Icelandic Ponies
Electrons
The Rumpus
In High School
In High School
ZYZZYVA:
Hotel Bar
Poetry Society of America:
Propofol
Jewish Currents:
Dybbuk
West Branch:
Hotel (reprinted on Verse Daily)
Springhouse Journal:
Everyone I Love Is Drafting Their Own Eulogies
One Spring
Tupelo Quarterly (Finalist in TQ5 Poetry contest):
Box of Shadows
Shadowboxing