Maria Kuznetsova | The Sun Magazine

Maria Kuznetsova

Maria Kuznetsova was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and moved to the United States as a child, where she learned English by watching Married. . . with Children. She has published two novels and teaches at Auburn University.

— From August 2023
Fiction

Sandwoman

My insomnia began just when my baby girl started sleeping through the night. Anytime my head hit the pillow, my heart pounded like a million galloping horses, and I would tremble and sweat and eventually get up and stand on our back porch to beg the gods for peace.

August 2023
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