About
Mariya Zilberman is an MFA candidate in poetry at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program. She teaches creative writing to elementary school students as a Writer-in-Residence with the InsideOut Literary Arts program. Prior to arriving at the University of Michigan, she worked in newsrooms and non-profits in Baltimore and San Francisco. Her reporting has been recognized regionally by the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, as well as nationally by the Society of Professional Journalists. She was born in Minsk, Belarus.
