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Kseniya Melnik's debut book is the linked story collection SNOW IN MAY, which was short-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. It was published in the US and UK in 2014 and in Japan in translation in 2017.
Born in Magadan, Russia, Kseniya moved to Alaska in 1998, at the age of 15. She received her MFA from New York University. Her work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Epoch, Esquire (Russia), Granta (Finland), O, Oprah Magazine, Tin House,Virginia Quarterly Review, Prospect (UK), and was selected for Granta's New Voices series. She was a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 2014 and at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland in 2016, and served as the 2015-2016 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. She currently lives in California and is at work on a novel entitled GHOST TOWNS OF MY YOUTH as well as several TV and screenwriting projects, including the TV adaptation of Annie Proulx's novel BARKSKINS and the crime drama COYOTE, currently streaming on CBSAllAccess.. |
AUDIO INTERVIEWS:
❄ INTERVIEW WITH RACHEL MARTIN FOR NPR'S WEEKEND EDITION
❄ INTERVIEW WITH JOHN KING FOR THE DRUNKEN ODYSSEY-A PODCAST ABOUT THE WRITING LIFE (EPISODE 99)
❄ INTERVIEW WITH PUBLISHERS WEEKLY RADIO (EPISODE 71)
❄ INTERVIEW WITH LAKE EFFECT'S MITCH TEICH FOR THE WUWM MILWAUKEE PUBLIC RADIO 89.7
❄ INTERVIEW WITH MARRIE STONE FOR WRITERS ON WRITING PODCAST
On the importance of place, dialogue, and writing in a language that's not my own
On the importance of place, dialogue, and writing in a language that's not my own
❄ INTERVIEW WITH LOUIE SAENZ FOR KTEP 88.5 FM's "PERSPECTIVES" (El Paso NPR)
❄ INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL CHACON AND BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ FOR KTEP'S WORDS ON A WIRE RADIO SHOW
Q & A:
❄ INTERVIEW WITH RAINCOAST BOOKS
❄ INTERVIEW WITH NANA BREW-HAMMOND FOR "PEOPLE WHO WRITE" BLOG
On Writing about Russia & the Pros & Cons of Getting an MFA
On Writing about Russia & the Pros & Cons of Getting an MFA
❄ INTERVIEW WITH THE CHELSEA CRIER FOR THE NEW YORK ARTS PROGRAM
❄ Q&A WITH THE STORY PRIZE BLOG
On writing habits and competing passions
On writing habits and competing passions
❄ Q & A WITH SLICE MAGAZINE
About SNOW IN MAY and creative quirks
About SNOW IN MAY and creative quirks
❄ Q & A WITH MICHAEL NOLL FOR "READ TO WRITE STORIES" BLOG
On "writing a Baba Yaga story, creating echo chambers in fiction, and avoiding easy descriptions of complex places"
On "writing a Baba Yaga story, creating echo chambers in fiction, and avoiding easy descriptions of complex places"
essays
❄ AN ESSAY ABOUT MY "CREATIVE DNA" FOR CURIOUS ANIMAL MAGAZINE
❄ AN ESSAY ABOUT THE LONG SHORT STORY FOR BEATRICE BLOG
PROFILES:
❄ AN ARTICLE ABOUT SNOW IN MAY AND THE AUTHOR IN EL PASO TIMES
❄ A PROFILE OF THE AUTHOR IN THE BROOKLYN RAIL