Maria Lioutaia reads “Potatoes” for the launch celebration of Conjunctions:70, Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue at KGB Bar in Manhattan, on June 27, 2018.
Maria Lioutaia was born in Russia, grew up in Canada, and now lives in New York. She is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at NYU, where she is a Goldwater Fellow. Her contribution to Conjunctions:70, Sanctuary: The Preservation Issuemarks her first appearance in print.