About

About the Author

Place of birth: Kherson, Ukraine

Other places I’ve lived and worked:

• Moscow and Zheleznovodsk, in Russia, where I have family;
• The suburbs of Baltimore, which, of the many Americas I now know, were my first;
• The Philadelphia area, where I went to school at Swarthmore College;
• Grenoble, France, where I spent a semester and learned how to ski and cook;
• Hell’s Kitchen, New York City, where I lived while working as a consultant in Toronto, Connecticutt, Miami, New Jersey, and Frankfurt;
• Boston, where I earned an MFA in fiction from Boston University;
• Austin, Texas, where I am now finishing a collection of stories and a novel;

Places to read my work: Here and in Best New American Voices 2009.