Photograph of Maia Evrona in front of flowerpots in Vilna. Photograph by Loreta Paukstyte of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute.
Personal Essays:
"Immigrating to the In-Between,"
Hektoen International, Winter 2018
Click here to read: http://www.maiaevrona.com/new-blog/2020/11/19/immigrating-to-the-in-between
Opinion and Letters:
“Australia’s Yiddish Community is Thriving Not Reviving”
The Forward, December 2025
https://forward.com/opinion/letters/791563/australias-yiddish-community-is-thriving-not-reviving/
“My Fulbright and COVID-19.” Los Angeles Review of Books
https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/fulbright-covid-19/
"I Received a Small Grant from the NEA. Here's Why Its Elimination Would Be a Huge Loss for the Country." Artnet
https://news.artnet.com/opinion/nea-maia-evrona-1026371#.WW6aTGs-skB.facebook
"How Should We Review Translations?" The Tiff; Asymptote Blog
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/tag/maia-evrona-2/
Literary Criticism:
“With What Words; With What Silence; The Letters of Nelly Sachs and Paul Celan,”
Poetry Northwest, June 2019
https://www.poetrynw.org/with-what-words-with-what-silence/
Less classifiable:
“Ukraine in the words of a murdered Yiddish poet,”
Forward (Includes my translation of Dovid Hofshteyn’s poem “Ukraine”), August 2025
https://forward.com/yiddish-world/759676/ukraine-murdered-yiddish-poet-dovid-hofstein-stalin/
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