Maria Stepanova is a poet, essayist and journalist. Her collection of poems War of the Beasts and the Animals is published in English by Bloodaxe this September, as well as her prose book In Memory of Memory (Fitzcarraldo). She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the online independent crowd-sourced Russian journal Colta.ru.

Maria Stepanova's work featured in PN Review comprises one contribution of poetry and one article, over a period of five years.