Mariya Zilberman (she/her) is a writer whose poems have recently appeared in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Columbia Journal, and Guesthouse. She won the 2020 Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Award in Poetry, and has also received support from organizations such as the Vermont Studio Center, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the New Jewish Culture Fellowship. Mariya was born in Minsk, Belarus and now lives in Detroit, Michigan. She earned an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she currently teaches. She is at work on her first poetry collection.