R.M. Fradkin

R.M. Fradkin studied writing with Bret Johnston, Amy Hempel, and Daniel Orozco, and has had short fiction published by Terrain, Fiddlehead, Florida Review, J Journal, and Cleaver Magazine, among others. One of her stories was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. 

She has been awarded residencies at Art Farm in Nebraska, Hypatia-in-the-Woods in Washington, and the International Writers and Translators' Center of Rhodes, and was Writer-in-Residence at the Anchorage Museum, where she finished her first novel.

Outside of writing, she has worked at farms, forests, restaurants, and dinner circus theatres; been both an elementary and a high school teacher; done publicity and project management for musicians and composers, and worked at the Bronx Arts Ensemble, where she ran the organization’s public concert series and oversaw the music curriculum for their arts-in-education program in more than 40 schools.

R.M. Fradkin completed an MFA in Fiction at Oregon State University, studying with Nick Dybek, Sue Rodgers, Keith Scribner, Sindya Bhanoo, and John Larison. She is working on a novel set in an experimental forest.