Mariya Zilberman

Mariya Zilberman is a writer whose poems have recently appeared in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Columbia Journal, and Guesthouse. She won the 2020 Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Award in Poetry, and has also received support from organizations such as the Vermont Studio Center, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the New Jewish Culture Fellowship. Mariya was born in Minsk, Belarus and immigrated with her family to Baltimore in 1992. She earned an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she currently teaches writing. She is at work on her first poetry collection.

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Possibility Out of Constraint: An Interview with Monica Rico

Mariya Zilberman

When friends and family gathered for the March 2024 launch of Monica Rico’s Pinion, we weren’t just celebrating the work, we were celebrating the person—the one standing before us in a bird-print dress, surrounded by flowers and a thousand paper cranes of her own making. At that point, Monica had been in cancer treatment for […]

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By Mariya Zilberman