Maria Reva writes fiction and opera libretti. She is the author of the short story collection GOOD CITIZENS NEED NOT FEAR and of the novel ENDLING, which was longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. Maria’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney’s, The Wall Street Journal, Granta, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere.

She won a National Magazine Award in 2019 and was the 2025 winner of the Atwood Gibson Prize from the Writer's Trust of Canada. Her most recent musical collaboration is a chamber opera with Laurence Jobidon commissioned by Opéra de Montréal and Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Opera Roadshow.

Past projects include a script for City Opera Vancouver (“Lost Operas of Mozart,” 2016) and two operas with composer Anna Pidgorna: “Our Trudy,” commissioned and premiered by Ad Astra Music Festival in Kansas, and “Plaything,” developed by Musique 3 Femmes and premiered in Berlin at the ufaFabrik in Fall 2022.

Maria was born in Ukraine and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. She received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas.