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Am I Ukranian? A Study in Eight Parts

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Mara Sandroff
Aug 31, 2022
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Every two weeks or so, I am publishing an essay from an emerging wrier. This week, work from Mara Sandroff. Mara is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist based in Brooklyn and Tucson. She currently writes literary criticism for Newcity Lit and recently earned her MFA in fiction from NYU. She is an alumna of One Story’s 2019 Summer Writers Conference an…

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Mara Sandroff recently earned her MFA in fiction from NYU. Currently, she is working an a novel that explores Jewish identity, intergenerational storytelling, and a young girl’s coming-of-age in a world that is (possibly) coming to an end.
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