Maria
Reva
Maria Reva is a fiction fellow at the Michener Center for Writers based in Austin, Texas. She is at work on a linked story collection set in Soviet Ukraine. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Tin House Flash Fridays, The Journey Prize Stories, and The Best American Short Stories 2017. Reva was born in Ukraine and grew up in Vancouver.
Award History
Jury Citation
“Set in the Ukraine and told in the voice of a young girl, ‘The Ermine Coat’ is a deeply moving story of a family – two women who sew fur coats for a living and the daughters they raise together. With elegant, nuanced prose, brimming with beauty and tenderness, Maria Reva sheds light on the social and economic pressures of Soviet life and reveals the joys and fragilities of familial love, and the sacrifices we make for it.” — 2018 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Jury (Martha Baillie, Omar El Akkad, and Ayelet Tsabari)
