Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry

Prosaic Portfolio

Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry was born and raised in Moscow, Russia, by a mother who believed that unless you read every day, you did not deserve dinner. Kristina graduated from Moscow State Linguistic University and worked as a school teacher and an interpreter before moving to the United States in 1994. She received an M.A. in English from Radford University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins University.

Her work has recently appeared in The Southern Review, Calyx, Nimrod, Arts & Letters, North Dakota Quarterly, Gulf Stream, Confrontation, and elsewhere. Her short fiction has been selected as a finalist for the Very Short Fiction Award, Fiction Open, and Family Matters Contest in Glimmer Train, as well as for the 2010 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction.

She lives in the Appalachian mountains of Southwest Virginia with her husband and son.