Who has the right to tell a war story? How to keep creating art in times of war? Join us for Maria Reva’s talk on the ethics of writing at times of war and a discussion of her groundbreaking artistic practices in response to the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in her new award-winning novel Endling (2025).
Maria Reva is a Vancouver-based Ukrainian Canadian writer and librettist. She is the author of the story collection Good Citizens Need Not Fear (2020) as well as the novel Endling (2025), which was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Maria’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney’s, The Wall Street Journal, Granta, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She won a National Magazine Award in 2019 and was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust of Canada 2020 and 2025 Fiction Prize. She received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas.