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  • Olga-Maria has published poetry, essays, and commentaries in various settings. Her first chapbook of poems, "A Philosopher Speaks of Rivers," was published by Finishing Line Press of Cincinnati, Ohio in 2005. Her poems have appeared in national and international journals, including Poetry East, Ars Interpres (Sweden), Limestone, and The Chaffin Journal.

 

 

  • Olga-Maria's writing has received grant support from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation for Women, both for her poetry and memoir.

 

  • Her op-ed piece, "Hospitality is no hardship," chronicling how her maternal great-grandparents survived the Depression, appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal in November 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Olga-Maria has recently completed a memoir, tentatively titled THE THING I CAME FOR, exploring the psychological terrain of dissociation as a response to trauma. An essay, "Salvaging Parts," which was excerpted from this work was included in the book SAME TIME NEXT WEEK, an anthology of essays on mental health, edited by Lee Gutkind (In Fact Books, March 2015).

 

 

  • Olga-Maria sometimes writes about yoga and spirituality: her blog, This Bliss Yoga, can be found on this website. Blog posts tend to focus on a philosophical idea, the story of a Hindu deity or unpacking the meaning of a Sanskrit word.

 

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