Oksana Marafioti
Oksana Marafioti is an American writer of Armenian and Russian Romani descent.
Biography[]
A classically trained pianist, she graduated from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas' Professional Film Crew Training Program, and worked in film before moving into writing.[1][2] She is the author of American Gypsy: A Memoir (FSG, 2012). Her works have appeared in Rumpus ,Slate and Time magazines,and in a number of literary journals and anthologies, including Literary Orphans,Story Southand Immigrant Voices Vol.II (Penguin Random House, 2015). She was the 2013 BMI - Library of Congress Kluge Center Fellow and the 2020 recipient of the Picador Guest Professorship Award from the University of Leipzig, Germany. Along with many interviews and panel appearances, Oksana has presented her research on Magical Realism In Soviet Russia at the Library of Congress in 2013 and participated in the C-SPAN panel discussion on race and ethnicity in 2015. Oksana was the guest co-editor of the special 2020 issue on Romani literature for the Critical Romani Studies Journal at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. In 2018, Oksana founded Lounge Writers, an online creative writing studio that offers classes by award-winning and best-selling authors to help writers of all levels explore and enhance their craft.
References[]
- ^ Peterson, Kristen (July 11, 2012), "Growing up Gypsy: 'They see you as a thief and a fortune-teller'", Las Vegas Weekly, retrieved August 12, 2012
- ^ King, Pat (October 16, 2000). "UNLV program promotes job creation in film industry". Las Vegas Business Press. 17 (41): 3.
Further reading[]
- Tyrkus, Michael J. (2014). Contemporary authors. Volume 344 : a bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Detroit: Gale. ISBN 9781414497334. OCLC 864717039.
- Hutner, Gordon (2015). Immigrant voices: Volume III. New York: New American Library. ISBN 9780698182721. OCLC 910879877.
- "'American Gypsy': A Road From Siberia to Hollywood". NPR. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
- Sambuchino, Chuck (2012-07-10). "How I Got My Agent: Oksana Marafioti". Writer's Digest. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
- "'Corpus cartography': diasporic identity as flesh and blood". Academia.
- "Romani Realities in the United States:Breaking the Silence, Challenging the Stereotypes". FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University.
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- Soviet emigrants to the United States
- Romani writers