Maria Reva

Maria Reva is a Canadian writer.^[1][2] She is most noted for her short story collection Good Citizens Need Not Fear.^[3]

Life

Born in Ukraine, Reva moved to Canada with her family in childhood, and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is an MFA graduate of the University of Texas.^[1] Good Citizens Need Not Fear, her debut collection, was based in part on family stories of life in Soviet-era Ukraine.^[4] In 2025, her debut novel Endling was published.^[5][6]

Apart from writing fiction, Reva writes librettos for operas working with various composers, including her sister, Anna Pidgorna.^[1]

Her work has been published in The Atlantic, McSweeney's and the Best American Short Stories anthologies.

Awards and nominations

• 2018: RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers for the short story "The Ermine Coat"^[7]
• 2019: National Magazine Award for Fiction, for the short story "Unsound",^[8] republished as the novelette "Little Rabbit" in the collection Good Citizens Need Not Fear^[9]
• Good Citizens Need Not Fear was considered for several awards:
  • 2020: A shortlisted finalist for the 2020 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize^[10]
  • 2020: Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  • 2022: Recipient of the Kobzar Literary Award
• 2025: Long-listed for the Booker Prize for the novel Endling^[11]

Works

• Good Citizens Need Not Fear. New York: National Geographic Books. 2021-02-09. ISBN 978-1-9848-9758-9.
• Endling. New York: Doubleday Books. 2025. ISBN 978-0-385-54531-0. ^[12][13]