Maria Reva

[1] She is most noted for her short story collection Good Citizens Need Not Fear, which was a shortlisted finalist for the 2020 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

[2] Born in Ukraine, Reva moved to Canada with her family in childhood, and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

[1] Good Citizens Need Not Fear, her debut collection, was based in part on family stories of life in Soviet-era Ukraine.

[3] An MFA graduate of the University of Texas,[1] Reva won the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in 2018 for her short story "The Ermine Coat".

[4] Her work has also been published in The Atlantic, McSweeney's and the Best American Short Stories anthologies.