Maija MäkinenMaija Mäkinen is a Finnish-born writer and translator whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Porter House Review, The Bare Life Review, SAND, and in the anthology Short, Vigorous Roots - A Contemporary Flash Fiction Collection of MigrantVoices. he has been awarded the University of Cambridge Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize and the Nadia Christensen Prize in Translation, and residency fellowships to Art Omi, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, The Studios of Key West and Kone Foundation's Saari Residency in Finland. She is a graduate of the Boston University Creative Writing Program. After seven transatlantic moves between Finland and the U.S., she lives in Brooklyn and writes mainly in English. Read More Read Less