Maria Reva

Maria Reva writes fiction and opera libretti. She is the author of the short story collection GOOD CITIZENS NEED NOT FEAR and of the novel ENDLING, which was longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. 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 and was the 2025 winner of the Atwood Gibson Prize from the Writer's Trust of Canada. Maria was born in Ukraine and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. She received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas.