Olga Zilberbourg (born 1979) is a Russian-American bilingual writer writing in both English and Russian.
She was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a family of Jewish-Russian intellectuals, and subsequently immigrated to the US.
In the words of the critic Anna Kasradze, "The thread connecting [the stories in Like Water is each protagonist’s attempt to come to terms with an identity that is always in flux, transitioning between various contexts such as emigration, motherhood, partnership, and employment.
"[1][2] The Los Angeles Review of Books[3] said her words remind the reader that the dream of assimilation is first a fantasy and then a triumph before it is — finally — a loss.
Zilberbourg also contributes essays and cultural commentary to well-known American magazines.