BOOKS
All-Night Pharmacy (Debut novel, published by Catapult, 2023) - OUT NOW!
Emergency Brake (Debut poetry collection published by Tavern Books, 2016)
NONFICTION
The Atlantic
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
Also featured in Literary Hub's daily newsletter
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)
Salon
The right's newest culture war target: HIV treatment isn't simply collateral damage
Electric Literature
7 Books About Reckoning with Intergenerational Trauma
Lambda Literary
On Becoming An HIV Pharmacist (forthcoming)
Hey, Alma
11 Jewish authors on the Jewish books that shaped them (contributor)
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
Also featured in Literary Hub's daily newsletter
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)
Salon
The right's newest culture war target: HIV treatment isn't simply collateral damage
Electric Literature
7 Books About Reckoning with Intergenerational Trauma
Lambda Literary
On Becoming An HIV Pharmacist (forthcoming)
Hey, Alma
11 Jewish authors on the Jewish books that shaped them (contributor)
POETRY
The American Poetry Review (winner of the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize):
Wormhole
In High School
The First Time
Mosquitos
Remorse Poem
Magic Grow
Salt
Tin House:
The Knowing
Because It's October
Cat-Baby
There Is No Lake
The Loneliness Is Coming from Inside My Body
Kenyon Review:
Ficus (audio version here; reprinted on Poets.org here)
Locusts
Ploughshares:
Prank Show
In High School
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
Knowing I
Knowing II
Poem for Spring
Wind
Three Blocks
Nothing Poem
Election
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
In High School
The First Time
Mosquitos
Remorse Poem
Magic Grow
Salt
Tin House:
The Knowing
Because It's October
Cat-Baby
There Is No Lake
The Loneliness Is Coming from Inside My Body
Kenyon Review:
Ficus (audio version here; reprinted on Poets.org here)
Locusts
Ploughshares:
Prank Show
In High School
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
Knowing I
Knowing II
Poem for Spring
Wind
Three Blocks
Nothing Poem
Election
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
FICTION
ZYZZYVA — excerpt from debut novel, ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY
Moldova
The Iowa Review (winner of the Tim McGinnis Prize for Fiction):
Hamster
Loose Teeth
7x7:
Amulet
The Rumpus:
Prescriptions
Joyland Magazine (most-read piece for Joyland Los Angeles in 2016):
Sister, Stripper, Window
Moldova
The Iowa Review (winner of the Tim McGinnis Prize for Fiction):
Hamster
Loose Teeth
7x7:
Amulet
The Rumpus:
Prescriptions
Joyland Magazine (most-read piece for Joyland Los Angeles in 2016):
Sister, Stripper, Window
INTERVIEWS WITH RUTH
ON ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY
The Los Angeles Times: "This L.A. pharmacist’s debut novel is loaded with sex and drugs. Don’t tell her boss."
NPR: “Ruth Madievsky’s new novel explores trauma, drugs, and toxic sisterhood”
The Cut: “An acid trip through generational trauma”
Them: “This debut novel is a queer, pill-fueled Los Angeles Odyssey”
BOMB
Electric Literature: “The path to self-actualization is paved with grifters and psychics”
Interview Magazine: "Ruth Madievsky wants readers to post nudes of her new novel"
Shondaland: "Survival and resilience in All-Night Pharmacy"
Literary Hub: “Ruth Madievsky on creating fiction from poetry”
Hey, Alma: "Ruth Madievsky's Jewish Diasporic Drama Queens"
Full Stop
Hobart
Publisher's Weekly: "Sex, Drugs, Siblings!"
Gulf Coast
The OC Register: USC Pharmacy graduate Ruth Madievsky explores opioid epidemic in debut novel
Write or Die
The Rumpus: “Amnesia and abject terror are prerequisites”
Los Angeles Review of Books
Autostraddle
Belletrist
Tupelo Quarterly
Shelf Awareness
The Maris Review (podcast): "Ruth Madievsky on the semi-cursed nightlife of Los Angeles"
Debutiful (podcast)
Burned by Books (podcast)
The Newsette
The Frontlist
The Coachella Review
Cleaver Magazine
Powell's Books: "Pills, Pills, Pills: Ruth Madievsky's playlist for "All-Night Pharmacy"
ON POETRY
Poetry.LA
meduza
Ruth Stone Foundation Podcast
Lunch Ticket
Massachusetts Review
Prairie Schooner
ZYZZYVA
Dwarf & Giant (blog for The Last Bookstore)
On Marie Howe, Eula Biss & Claudia Rankine for Three Good Books
The Los Angeles Times: "This L.A. pharmacist’s debut novel is loaded with sex and drugs. Don’t tell her boss."
NPR: “Ruth Madievsky’s new novel explores trauma, drugs, and toxic sisterhood”
The Cut: “An acid trip through generational trauma”
Them: “This debut novel is a queer, pill-fueled Los Angeles Odyssey”
BOMB
Electric Literature: “The path to self-actualization is paved with grifters and psychics”
Interview Magazine: "Ruth Madievsky wants readers to post nudes of her new novel"
Shondaland: "Survival and resilience in All-Night Pharmacy"
Literary Hub: “Ruth Madievsky on creating fiction from poetry”
Hey, Alma: "Ruth Madievsky's Jewish Diasporic Drama Queens"
Full Stop
Hobart
Publisher's Weekly: "Sex, Drugs, Siblings!"
Gulf Coast
The OC Register: USC Pharmacy graduate Ruth Madievsky explores opioid epidemic in debut novel
Write or Die
The Rumpus: “Amnesia and abject terror are prerequisites”
Los Angeles Review of Books
Autostraddle
Belletrist
Tupelo Quarterly
Shelf Awareness
The Maris Review (podcast): "Ruth Madievsky on the semi-cursed nightlife of Los Angeles"
Debutiful (podcast)
Burned by Books (podcast)
The Newsette
The Frontlist
The Coachella Review
Cleaver Magazine
Powell's Books: "Pills, Pills, Pills: Ruth Madievsky's playlist for "All-Night Pharmacy"
ON POETRY
Poetry.LA
meduza
Ruth Stone Foundation Podcast
Lunch Ticket
Massachusetts Review
Prairie Schooner
ZYZZYVA
Dwarf & Giant (blog for The Last Bookstore)
On Marie Howe, Eula Biss & Claudia Rankine for Three Good Books
INTERVIEWS BY RUTH
GQ
When Is A “Problematic Fave” Actually A Monster? An Interview with Claire Dederer
Them
Rasheed Newson's Debut Novel Retells the Early Years of AIDS in New York City
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
Q&A: Translating Ukrainian Voices (Interview with Zenia Tompkins)
Kveller
Interview with Katya Apekina (forthcoming)
Catapult
Michelle Hart Is Queering the Campus Novel
Electric Literature
Meet the Champion of Debut Authors: An Interview with Adam Vitcavage
When Is A “Problematic Fave” Actually A Monster? An Interview with Claire Dederer
Them
Rasheed Newson's Debut Novel Retells the Early Years of AIDS in New York City
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
Q&A: Translating Ukrainian Voices (Interview with Zenia Tompkins)
Kveller
Interview with Katya Apekina (forthcoming)
Catapult
Michelle Hart Is Queering the Campus Novel
Electric Literature
Meet the Champion of Debut Authors: An Interview with Adam Vitcavage
SELECTED AWARDS
Pushcart Prize nomination for poem "Happy Foot Sad Foot" in Bat City Review
The Indiana Review 2018 Poetry Prize, Finalist (for poem, "How Easily The Lancet")
The American Poetry Review Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, Winner (for poem, "Wormhole")
The Iowa Review Tim McGinnis Award, Winner (for short story, "Hamster")
Tin House Poetry Scholarship to attend the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Inspire Us Contest in Poetry, Winner
Tavern Books' 2015 Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series selection (EMERGENCY BRAKE)
Pushcart Prize nomination for poem "Flight" in Arroyo Literary Review
Best of the Net nomination for poem "Enchilada" in Oxidant Engine
The Indiana Review 2018 Poetry Prize, Finalist (for poem, "How Easily The Lancet")
The American Poetry Review Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, Winner (for poem, "Wormhole")
The Iowa Review Tim McGinnis Award, Winner (for short story, "Hamster")
Tin House Poetry Scholarship to attend the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Inspire Us Contest in Poetry, Winner
Tavern Books' 2015 Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series selection (EMERGENCY BRAKE)
Pushcart Prize nomination for poem "Flight" in Arroyo Literary Review
Best of the Net nomination for poem "Enchilada" in Oxidant Engine