Dr. Masha Shukovich is an award-winning writer, poet, storyteller, folklorist, teacher, and intuitive chef with ancestry and indigenous roots in the Balkans; the Mediterranean; and West, Central, and Northeast Asia (Siberia). She is the mother of Maya and Leela, practical animist, demigirl (she/they), neurodivergent person, and an immigrant from a country that no longer exists.

Masha holds an MA and a PhD in Communication and Gender Studies, an MFA in Creative Writing, and is a certified facilitator of Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths & Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Her work attempts to give a voice to the experiences of immigrants and disenfranchised individuals, especially those who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQIA, people with disabilities, neurodivergent folks, and people of under-represented ethnicities, cultures, and religions. She is inspired by the lived experiences of people like herself: apparent outsiders who seem to belong nowhere and everywhere.

Masha is a recipient of many writing awards and her creative and scholarly work has appeared in anthologies, books, edited volumes, scholarly and literary journals, and was featured on podcasts and radio. As a keeper of oral, written, and visual stories, she believes in the power of narrative and its ability to build community, effect change, and transform human experience.

Masha lives on Utah trails and online at http://www.mashashukovich.com/