She is the author of two novels, Mannequin Girl (W.W. Norton, 2014) and The Last Chicken in America (W.W. Norton, 2007), which was a finalist for the 2007 LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the 2008 New York Public Library Young Lions Award. A native of Moscow, Russia, she is interested in immigrant narratives, contemporary Russian literature and culture, and translation studies. Her fiction, nonfiction, and translations have appeared in Best New American Voices, Best of Tin House, American Odysseys: Writing by New Americans, East European Jewish Affairs, Guernica, The Forward, and elsewhere. Litman is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, as well as fellowships at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Bread Loaf Writers’ conference.