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Ruth Madievsky

Ruth Madievsky
Ruth Madievsky is the author of a bestselling poetry collection, Emergency Brake (Tavern Books, 2016). Her work appears in Harper’s Bazaar, Guernica, Literary Hub, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She is a founding member of the Cheburashka Collective, a community of women and nonbinary writers from the former Soviet Union. Originally from Moldova, she lives in Los Angeles, where she works as an HIV and primary care pharmacist.


Ruth Madievsky on Burying Her Darlings in a Cemetery of Bangers

“My stylish one-liners were a crutch I used to get out of the more difficult decisions a novel requires.”
July 10, 2023  By Ruth Madievsky
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Why Does Goodreads Have a Problem with Fiction by Women, About Women?

Introducing the Madievsky Rule
December 21, 2020  By Ruth Madievsky
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The Creepy Dissonance of Reading Trick Mirror in a ‘Self-Care’ Book Club

Ruth Madievsky: Snacks! Facials! Corporate Feminism?
October 31, 2019  By Ruth Madievsky
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