MARIA REVA was born in Ukraine and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her debut collection of stories, Good Citizens Need Not Fear, was published in 2020 and praised by Margaret Atwood, Miriam Toews and many others. She has an MFA in fiction from the Michener Center at the University of Texas. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2017, McSweeney's and Granta. She currently lives in Vancouver, Canada, and also works as an opera librettist.