Maria Tumarkin Author

Maria Tumarkin is a Ukrainian-born writer, historian and an unapologetic refugee from Australian academia. Her eclectic nature has drawn her to an unruly array of subjects, including cosmopolitanism, ruins, history of sleep and erotic espionage. She is the author of Traumascapes. The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy (MUP, 2005), which was shortlisted in the category for a first book of history in the 2006 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. She lives in Melbourne with her husband and daughter.