Olga Zilberbourg is the author of a short story collection published in Russia, where she was born in 1979, as well as the collection Like Water and Other Stories. She received a BS in international business from the Rochester Institute of Technology and an MA in comparative literature from San Francisco State University. Her essay on Lydia Chukovskaya, a Soviet writer and poet who devoted her career to defending dissidents such as Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov, accompanies two works of Chukovskaya’s fiction. Zilberbourg is a consulting editor of Narrative and lives in San Francisco.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Quieter Than Water, Lower Than Grass: Growing Up Afraid in Russia, an essay, in Winter 2022
- St. Petersburg, Russia, a readers' narrative, in Fall 2013
- A Dark and Empty Corner, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2011–2012
- The Swallow, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2009–2010