Masha Shukovich

Masha Shukovich (she/they) is a writer, storyteller, folklorist, neurodivergent person, and a brown immigrant from a country that no longer exists. Her ancestral and indigenous roots are in the Balkans; the Mediterranean; and West, Central and Northeast Asia.

Masha is the winner of the 2024 Prism Review Fiction Contest, the Cutthroat Magazine’s 2022 Rick DeMarinis Short Story Prize, 2022 Page Turner Mentorship Award, and the 2022 Courage to Write Writers of Note Award, among others. Masha's work was recently shortlisted for The Masters Review’s Anthology; First Pages Prize; and Fractured Lit’s Legends, Myths, & Allegories Prize. They are at work on a novel and a collection of short stories. Masha’s writing is inspired by the lived experiences of people like themselves: humanimals, shapeshifters, and apparent outsiders who seem to belong nowhere and everywhere. Masha lives and writes on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Ute, Goshute, Paiute, and Shoshone Peoples, colonially known as the Salt Lake Valley.