Russian-American writer, Olga Zilberbourg, talks about coming of age during the fall of the Soviet Union, moving to the United States at the age of 17, and how these extraordinary experiences have shaped her identity as an artist.
Olga has been up until now mostly a short story writer, and is currently working on her first novel. She has been published in both English and Russian, and has been deeply impacted by both of her two countries. She discusses how she reconciles these two vastly different cultures in both her life and in her art, not to mention the challenges she's faced learning to write in a foreign language.