Mauricio Ruiz is a writer and journalist who has lived in the US, Belgium, Mexico and Norway. His work has appeared in Words Without Borders, Catapult, The Common, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, JMWW, River Teeth, Literal Magazine, among others. He's been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and Myriad Editions Competition in the UK, as well as the Fish Short Story Prize in Ireland. He has received fellowships from OMI writers (NY), Société des auteurs (Belgium), Jakob Sande (Norway), Can Serrat (Spain), and the Three Seas' Council (Rhodes). His second book, Silencios al sur, was published in early 2017, and his work has partially been translated into Dutch and French. Mauricio Ruiz can be followed on Twitter and Instagram.
On March 12th, Russia decided to bomb a children’s and maternity hospital in the city of Mariupol. Several hours after the attack, bodies were still being […]
The war in Ukraine is still ongoing. Despite all the help through sanctions and restrictions, Russia, or rather Putin, refuses to end his invasion. In the […]
Ukraine on Fire presents a likely controversial overview of Ukraine’s political history leading up to the 2014 protests in Euromaidan and shedding light on today’s military […]
Following the adoption of the Resolution on Aggression against Ukraine by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), and in light of the devastating escalation of violence, […]
People from all over the world have started booking Airbnb’s in Ukraine. They obviously have no intention of actually visiting the country any time soon, but […]
The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) has issued a statement in which it “deplores” the lives lost in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The […]
The longest, heaviest and largest aircraft ever built, the Antolov AN-225, has been destroyed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian authorities. On 24th February, […]
Dozens of flights are being diverted around Ukraine after airspace was closed following Russia’s invasion, which started on Thursday, 24th February 2022. The Daily Mail reports […]