Olga Zilberbourg

Fiction Writer

San Francisco, CA
California US
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Author's Bio

Olga Zilberbourg is the author of LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES published by WTAW Press. She has published three Russian-language collections of stories, the latest of which was published in Moscow in 2016. Her English-language fiction has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Narrative Magazine, World Literature Today, Confrontation, Feminist Studies, Tin House’s The Open Bar, Epiphany, Santa Monica Review, and elsewhere. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Lit Hub, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Common, and Electric Literature. She serves as a co-facilitator of the San Francisco Writers Workshop.

Publications & Prizes

Book:
LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES (WTAW Press, 2019)
Prizes won: 

San Francisco's Litquake Short Story Contest

The Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize, London, England

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Feminist, Jewish, Russian American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English, Russian
Born in: 
Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
Russia
Raised in: 
St. Petersburg
Russia
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Last update: Sep 22, 2019