Ruth Madievsky is the author of a bestselling poetry collection, Emergency Brake (Tavern Books, 2016).
Originally from Moldova, she lives in Los Angeles, where she works as an HIV and primary care pharmacist..
She is a founding member of the Cheburashka Collective, a community of women and nonbinary writers from the former Soviet Union.
Her work appears in Harper\'s Bazaar , Guernica , Literary Hub , Kenyon Review , Ploughshares , and elsewhere.
Ruth Madievsky is the author of a bestselling poetry collection, Emergency Brake (Tavern Books, 2016)