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Aviya Kushner is a writer, educator, and director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. She teaches creative writing and is actively engaged in literary publishing and mentorship. Her work bridges personal narrative, biblical language, and poetic expression.
Her research and creative interests focus on creative nonfiction, poetry, and the experience of reading religious texts in translation, particularly from Hebrew to English. She explores themes of identity, language, and meaning through literary forms. Her writing has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, Partisan Review, Poets & Writers, A Public Space, and Zoetrope: All-Story. She has also worked as a travel columnist for The International Jerusalem Post and poetry columnist for BarnesandNoble.com.
She has received notable recognition, including:
- Howard Foundation Fellow in Creative Nonfiction (2016–2017)
She is the author of The Grammar of God, praised by Robert Pinsky as 'a passionate, personal, and illuminating essay about nothing less than meaning itself,' and the poetry collection Wolf Lamb Bomb. She serves as a contributing editor at A Public Space and mentors emerging writers through the National Yiddish Book Center. Though not formally listed with a lab or research team, her work is deeply collaborative with literary communities and international writers, especially through her past engagement with the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
