Marina Blitshteyn

Born in the Soviet Union, Marina Blitshteyn and her family fled to the US in 1991 as refugees.

She studied English at SUNY Buffalo, where she edited the longstanding annual Name poetry journal, and Creative Writing at Columbia University, where she also served as a University Writing Fellow and consultant.

She is the author of Two Hunters, her first full-length collection, to be published by Argos Books in 2018 with a CLMP Face-Out grant. Prior chapbooks include Russian for Lovers (Argos Books), $kill$ (dancing girl press), Nothing Personal (Bone Bouquet Books), and the forthcoming Sheet Music (Sunnyoutside Press).

Her work has been anthologized in the new Brooklyn Poets Anthology, The &Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing, Why I Am Not a Painter, and My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry.

She teaches Composition and Rhetoric and experimental non-fiction and runs The Loose Literary Canons, a feminist reading group in NYC.

Companies

• Adjunct Assistant Professor New York University (2018)
• Assistant Professor Parsons School of Design - The New School (2015)
• Copywriter & Branding Consultant Freelance (2012)
• Copywriter, Branding BerlinRosen (2020 — 2020)
• Adjunct Instructor Fordham University (2012 — 2019)
• University Writing Instructor Columbia University (2010 — 2012)

Education

• MFA Columbia University School of the Arts (2009 — 2011)
• Bachelor of Arts - BA University at Buffalo (2004.09 — 2008.05)