BOOKS
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Poetry.LA
Columbia Journal
meduza
Ruth Stone Foundation Podcast
Lunch Ticket
Massachusetts Review
Prairie Schooner
ZYZZYVA
My Tribe
Dwarf & Giant (blog for The Last Bookstore)
Radial
On Marie Howe, Eula Biss & Claudia Rankine for Three Good Books
Columbia Journal
meduza
Ruth Stone Foundation Podcast
Lunch Ticket
Massachusetts Review
Prairie Schooner
ZYZZYVA
My Tribe
Dwarf & Giant (blog for The Last Bookstore)
Radial
On Marie Howe, Eula Biss & Claudia Rankine for Three Good Books
INTERVIEWS BY RUTH
GQ
Claire Dederer Reckons with Loving Monsters (forthcoming)
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
Interview with Douglas Manuel (forthcoming)
Poets & Writers
Q&A: Translating Ukrainian Voices (Interview with Zenia Tompkins)
Catapult
Michelle Hart Is Queering the Campus Novel
Electric Literature
Meet the Champion of Debut Authors: An Interview with Adam Vitcavage
Claire Dederer Reckons with Loving Monsters (forthcoming)
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
Interview with Douglas Manuel (forthcoming)
Poets & Writers
Q&A: Translating Ukrainian Voices (Interview with Zenia Tompkins)
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, now available)
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, now available)
Pushcart Prize nomination for poem "Flight" in Arroyo Literary Review
Best of the Net nomination for poem "Enchilada" in Oxidant Engine