Maria Reva writes fiction and opera libretti. She is the author of Good Citizens Need Not Fear, a linked story collection set in an apartment block in Ukraine. Maria’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney’s, The Wall Street Journal, Granta, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She won the Shevchenko Foundation’s Kobzar Book Award (2022), a National Magazine Award (2019) and was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust of Canada Fiction Prize (2020).

Her current collaborations include a musical play with composer Anna Pidgorna (to be performed by Sawtooth duo), as well as a children’s opera with Laurence Jobidon (with support from Musique 3 Femmes).

Maria was born in Ukraine and grew up in New Westminster, British Columbia. She received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. She is currently at work on a novel.