© 2021 Maija Makinen
Writing | Literary Translations
The Ghosts of Other Immigrants: Stories. New American Press. Release date: June 6, 2023. Order here, here or here.
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The Ghosts of Other Immigrants – flash fiction story in Short, Vigorous Roots: A Contemporary Flash Fiction Collection of Migrant Voices. Edited by Mark Budman & Susan O'Neill.
Ooligan Press, 2022
Three Poems by Helvi Juvonen. Translation from Finnish.
The Offing. October 5, 2021
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1993 – Winning story, 2020 Iowa Review Award in Fiction.
The Iowa Review 50:3 (published in August 2021)
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The Sound of Sirens. The Bare Life Review / The Latest
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Country Fiction – Pushcart Nomination, Porter House Review
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Finland Is Not Real. The Bare Life Review, Vol. 2, Spring 2019
Rosoinen sana, rough word. Broadsided Press
Yellowstone. SAND Journal, Berlin, Summer 2018
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Geography of Fear. Translation of Finnish novel excerpt by Anja Snellman. Los Angeles Review 22. Red Hen Press, 2018.
(Originally in LAR Online 12/2017)
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From ‘The Geography of Fear’ by Anja Snellman. Translation of novel excerpt. Gulf Coast 30.2, 2018
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Geography of Fear. Translation of novel excerpt by Anja Snellman.
Scandinavian Review, 2018
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Monkey Bars – Editor’s Choice Award, Best New Writing, 2014
Immigration as Self-Exile: I Am a Sick Woman, I’m a Crazy One, and I’m a Finn… Anglistica AION, Naples, Italy
Reading Sam Shepard’s Motel Chronicles on the Bronx-bound 6. The Nassau Review, 2013
After Forty. 2013 Robert Frost International Poetry & Haiku Contest, CreateSpace, 2013
Hiding in Full View. Transnational Literature, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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‘Punainen maa’ (in Finnish). Reviiri 2011 (biennial review of new Finnish literature). Regional Arts Council of Southwest Finland