Maria Reva is a Canadian writer of Ukrainian descent.Niko Bell, "For Ukrainian-Canadian Author Maria Reva, Humour is a Tool of Resistance", Montecristo Magazine, July 4, 2022. She is most noted for her short story collection Good Citizens Need Not Fear.Jennifer Wilson, The Place You Call Home, a Good Citizens Need Not Fear review, The Nation, July 13/20 issue, 2020.
Life Maria Reva was born in Ukraine and lived in Kherson until she was 7 years old. In 1997 Reva moved to Canada with her family and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is an MFA graduate of the University of Texas. Good Citizens Need Not Fear, her debut collection, was based in part on family stories of life in Soviet-era Ukraine. In 2025, her debut novel Endling was published.
Apart from writing fiction, Reva writes librettos for operas working with various composers, including her sister, Anna Pidgorna.
Her work has been published in The Atlantic, McSweeney's and the Best American Short Stories anthologies.
Books
Awards and nominations 2018: RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers for the short story "The Ermine Coat",Erin Balser, "Maria Reva wins $10K RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for emerging writers". CBC Books, May 31, 2018. republished in Good Citizens Need Not Fear 2019: National Magazine Award for Fiction, for the short story "Unsound", republished as the novelette "Little Rabbit" in the collection Good Citizens Need Not Fear Elizabeth McCracken, ‘Little Rabbit’ by Maria Reva Good Citizens Need Not Fear was considered for several awards: 2020: A shortlisted finalist for the 2020 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize"Thomas King, Gil Adamson among finalists for $50K Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize". Toronto Star, October 6, 2020. 2020: Shortlisted for the Canadian Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2022: Recipient of the Canadian Kobzar Literary Award Endling: 2025: Long-listed for the Booker Prize 2025: Winner of the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeCassandra Drudi, "Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Maria Reva, Roza Nozari among Writers’ Trust award winners". Quill & Quire, November 13, 2025. 2026: Winner of the Aspen Words Literary Prize"Maria Reva’s Endling has won the 2026 Aspen Words Literary Prize.". LitHub, April 24, 2026. 2026: Winner of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award.Maria Reva wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award for 'Endling', June 4, 2026
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