Kseniya Melnik
Kseniya Melnik’s debut book is the linked story collection Snow in May, which was short-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Born in Magadan, Russia, Kseniya moved to Alaska in 1998, at the age of 15, and currently lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Esquire (Russia), Granta (Finland), O, Oprah Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, Prospect (UK), and her first published story was selected for Granta‘s New Voices series.
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Fiction | The Online Edition
The Unmailed Letter
Kseniya Melnik
‘I was already suspicious of you before you were even born. You were Mama’s then, eating her up from the inside like a little cancer. She became yellow. She lost chunkfuls of hair.’