Evgeniya Dame

Evgeniya Dame is a writer and English teacher. She grew up in Samara, Russia and moved to the U.S. to pursue an MFA in Writing at the University of New Hampshire. Her fiction appears or is forthcoming in The Southern Review, Ploughshares, and Joyland, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her non-fiction and interviews have appeared in Electric Literature and New England Review online.

She is a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a Martin Dibner Memorial Fellowship for Maine Writers, and a Monson Arts Residency Fellowship. In addition to her MFA degree, she holds an MA in Language and Linguistics. She has spent over 10 years teaching English in Russia, including at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, and most recently taught writing at the University of New Hampshire. She is an editorial panel member at the New England Review.