Olga Maslova is a Ukrainian-American writer and theater designer, born and raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine. She is a MacDowell Fellow and Fulbright Scholar. Her poetry has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, New Ohio Review (nominated for the 2024 Best of the Net), New American Writing, Plume Poetry, Frontier Poetry (second place, 2023 Ekphrastic Poetry Prize), Rhino Poetry, Strange Horizons, Naugatuck River Review (semi-finalist for the Naugatuck Prize), and elsewhere.
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.
https://olgamaslova.com/
