Olga Maslova is a Ukrainian-American writer and theater designer. Born and raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine, she holds a BFA in directing from Ukraine, an MFA in dramaturgy from SUNY at Stony Brook, and an MFA in costume and set design from NYU. She is a 2021/2022 Fulbright Fellow. Olga is the librettist of several large-scale vocal works, including an opera, Black Square, an oratorio, The Last Day of the Eternal City, and an art song cycle, Venetian Cycle. Olga’s poem “Tokyo Prepartum” won second place in the Frontier Poetry 2023 Ekphrastic Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in New Ohio Review, New American Writing, Plume Poetry, The Coachella Review, Strange Horizons, ONE ART, Passengers, and others. Back in Ukraine, Olga worked as a metal turner of the 3rd rank, a theatre instructor at the Kharkiv Juvenile Detention Center for Girls, and a theatre instructor in one of the first Russian Waldorf Schools. She now teaches costume design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
