Darina (Dasha) Sikmashvili was born in Lubny, Ukraine and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan and has worked in film production for over a decade. Her fiction, essays, and screenplays have won the Hopwood Prize, the Kasdan Scholarship, and the Henfield Prize, among others. She is the recipient of scholarships from Can Serrat Residency, Laimun Residency, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her recent writing appears in The Common, Fence, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. A complete list of her publications and more information is available at: sikmashvili.com