Tova Benjamin is a PhD student in the History and Jewish Studies departments at NYU. There, she studies modern Jewish history, and the history of Late Imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. Her poetry, essays, fiction, and reviews have appeared in Poetry, BOAAT, Puerto del Sol, The Hairpin, Hunger Mountain, and Rookie magazine, where she was a staff writer from 2014-2017.
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New York University
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