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Maria Kuznetsova was born in Kiev, Ukraine and moved to the United States as a child. She recently received an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and her work appears in The Threepenny Review, The Normal School, The Bennington Review, The Iowa Review, Indiana Review, and elsewhere.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
Novellas and Short Stories
Maria Kuznetsova recommends
The Sunflower Boys (2025)
Sam Wachman
"The Sunflower Boys is a powerful queer coming-of-age story as well as a harrowing depiction of two young brothers plunged into the current war in Ukraine. Wachman manages to tell both stories with charm and grace."
The Road to the Salt Sea (2024)
Samuel Kọláwọlé
"The Road to the Salt Sea tells the story of one man's impossible emotional and physical journey as he fights for the life that he deserves in the face of extraordinary circumstances. It's also a suspenseful, profound, and moving page-turner. This novel reads like a fable and a contemporary classic all at once."
Your Presence Is Mandatory (2024)
Sasha Vasilyuk
"This novel is a masterful exploration of the weight of secrets, generational divides, war trauma, and the search for home and belonging within one's own homeland-a subject that feels more urgent than ever. Your Presence Is Mandatory should be mandatory reading for this time of crisis."
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