Ruth Madievsky is the author of a poetry collection, Emergency Brake (Tavern Books, 2016). Her work appears in Tin House, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere. She is a founding member of The Cheburashka Collective, a growing community of women and nonbinary writers whose identity has been shaped by immigration from the Soviet Union to the United States. Originally from Moldova, she currently lives in Boston, where she works as an HIV and oncology pharmacist and is completing a second poetry collection and a novel. Find her at ruthmadievsky.com and on Twitter @ruthmadievsky.