Maria Reva writes fiction and opera libretti. She was born in Ukraine and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, receiving her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas.
Maria is the author of Good Citizens Need Not Fear (2020), an award-winning set of interconnected stories that satirizes life in the final days of the Soviet Union. Her 2025 novel, Endling, was named a Best Novel of the Year by multiple organizations, including The New Yorker, NPR, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and The Washington Post.
Maria’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney’s, The Wall Street Journal, Granta, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She won a National Magazine Award in 2019, was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust of Canada 2020 Fiction Prize, and won the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
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