Nina Semczuk's writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review, Sinking City Literary Journal, Coal Hill Review, Sledgehammer Lit, The Line Literary Review, and elsewhere. She has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts and Poets & Writers, and has been awarded residencies at Elsewhere Studios in Colorado and at Craigardan in upstate New York. Her comics and art have appeared in Short Story, Long, the Weekly Humorist, The Belladonna, and elsewhere around the web.
Nina is a fiction reader for The Rumpus and in the past, she served as an editor of the Writer’s Foundry Review, an associate teacher for Voices From War, and an online writing teacher for The Loft Literary.
Before moving (back) to New York, Nina served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. She is originally from the Mohawk Valley/Adirondack foothills region of upstate New York and is proudly descended from four Ukrainian immigrant grandparents.
“I Am That Goddamn Metal Water Bottle that Shatters Any Sense of Peace in Yoga,” The Offing, 2024
“Poor Influence, Long Memories,” The Artistic License, 2024 (print)
“Future Forward Past Edit,” The Artistic License, 2024 (print)
“Article 27,” The Artistic License, 2024 (print)
“Double Drive,” Los Angeles Review, 2022
“Gray,” Sinking City Literary Magazine, 2021
“Pests,” Sledgehammer Lit, 2021
“Appendages,” Coal Hill Review, 2021
“Erascist,” runner-up in Rougarou: Journal of Arts & Literature’s spec/fabulist fiction contest; nominated for Best of the Net Anthology, 2021
“Foolish Rejoice,” a Biblical retelling of The Prodigal Son; Too Well Away Literary Journal, 2021
work forthcoming in Post Road
“I Don’t Want to Banter or Intellectualize About Ukraine’s Future. I Want to Help.,” The War Horse, 2022
“The Question,” The Line Literary Review, 2021
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