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.
Kseniya Melnik on Granta.com
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.’
Five Things Right Now | The Online Edition
Kseniya Melnik | Five Things Right Now
Kseniya Melnik
Kseniya Melnik, chosen in 2010 as a Granta New Voice, shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
A Dose of Winter Medicine
Kseniya Melnik
‘I looked at the carpet in her small living room. This is where she had fallen and lay for twenty-four hours before her younger sister, Auntie Tanya, had found her.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Selling Your First Soul
Kseniya Melnik
‘The Russia of my memories was largely imaginary – a cauldron of nostalgia-tinted material, which I calibrated with scrupulous research.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Kseniya Melnik | Interview
Ollie Brock & Kseniya Melnik
‘I wanted to write a story about the levels of pain, the ways people describe and explain sickness, and to what lengths they go to find a cure.’
