Feeding Ghosts

~ Olga Zilberbourg

by Colleen Shoshana McKee

New poetry collection from our long-term regular participant, published by Be About It Press. “Feeding Ghosts isn’t just a window into the life of an artist — addiction, mental illness, poverty, disability — it’s also a testament to the power of story, and even the tricky predicament we face when writing about real people.”

— Matthew Freeman, author of Dopamine and the Devil (Coffeetown Press 2025).

Colleen Shoshana McKee is the author of six collections of poetry, memoir, and fiction: My Hot Little Tomato (Cherry Pie Press’ Midwestern Women Poets Series); Are We Feeling Better Yet? Women Speak About Health Care in America (PenUltimate Press); A Partial List of Things I Have Done for Money (JKP); Nine Kinds of Wrong (JKP); The Kingdom of Roly Polys (Pedestrian Press); and Routine Bloodwork, a finalist for the Charlotte Mew Award (Headmistress Press). Colleen Shoshana teaches English as a Second Language to refugees in San Francisco. She also works as an editor and teaches creative writing to private students.

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Published by Olga Zilberbourg

Olga Zilberbourg’s English-language debut LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES (WTAW Press) explores “bicultural identity hilariously, poignantly,” according to The Moscow Times. It also dives into topics of bisexuality and immigrant parenthood. Anthony Marra called it “…a book of succinct abundance, dazzling in its particulars, expansive in its scope,” and Karen Bender said, “Olga Zilberbourg is a writer to read right now.” Zilberbourg’s writing has appeared in World Literature Today, The Believer, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Born in Leningrad, USSR in a Russian-speaking Jewish family, she makes her home in San Francisco, California. She has published four collections of stories in Russia, including most recent Задержи дыхание [Hold Your Breath] from Vremya Press. She serves as a consulting editor at Narrative Magazine and as a co-facilitator of the San Francisco Writers Workshop. Together with Yelena Furman, she has co-founded Punctured Lines, a feminist blog about literature from the former Soviet Union. She is currently at work on her first novel.

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