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Olga Zilberbourg [1]

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer
Public address: 
San Francisco, CA
California US
Email: 
bowlga@gmail.com
Bio: 

Olga Zilberbourg is the author of LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES published by WTAW Press. She has published three Russian-language collections of stories, the latest of which was published in Moscow in 2016. Her English-language fiction has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Narrative Magazine, World Literature Today, Confrontation, Feminist Studies, Tin House’s The Open Bar, Epiphany, Santa Monica Review, and elsewhere. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Lit Hub, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Common, and Electric Literature. She serves as a co-facilitator of the San Francisco Writers Workshop.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Russian
Twitter/X: 
@bowlga
Born in: 
Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
Russia
Raised in: 
St. Petersburg
Russia
Website: 
https://www.zilberbourg.com [2]
Prizes won: 

San Francisco's Litquake Short Story Contest

The Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize, London, England

Identifies as: 
Feminist
Jewish
Russian American
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/olga_zilberbourg [2] https://www.zilberbourg.com