Maria Kuznetsova

Maria Kuznetsova is the author of the novels Something Unbelievable (Random House, 2021) and Oksana, Behave! (Spiegel & Grau, 2019). She is also an assistant professor at Auburn University and the fiction editor of The Southern Humanities Review and The Bare Life Review, a journal of immigrant and refugee literature. Her writing can be found in Slate, The Southern Review, Guernica, Crazyhorse, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.

Maria Kuznetsova

Features

The Assassin

“All I ask is that you behave,” Roman says as he gets ready to step out. “Please.” He is a new lecturer with a one-year contract in the Slavic Studies Department at Alabama University, which has tasked him with coordinating tonight’s Living Writer Reading Series at the art museum, along with a reception for said […]

Spring 2022

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

Monumental Achievements

Future Fossils (with an introduction by Taylor Bradley)

A Celebration of Life (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

on Peach State by Adrienne Su

on Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness, edited by Anjanette...

on Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong

Mississippi Masala Revisited

on Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

on Death Stranding, created by Hideo Kojima

on Virga by Shin Yu Pai

on Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas

Spring 2022

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

Monumental Achievements

Future Fossils (with an introduction by Taylor Bradley)

A Celebration of Life (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

on Peach State by Adrienne Su

on Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness, edited by Anjanette...

on Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong

Mississippi Masala Revisited

on Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

on Death Stranding, created by Hideo Kojima

on Virga by Shin Yu Pai

on Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas

Spring 2022

Maria Kuznetsova

The Assassin

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Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...