Olga Zilberbourg was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and moved to the United States at the age of seventeen. After receiving her MA in Comparative Literature from San Francisco State University, Olga worked as an assistant editor at several online and print magazines, including All-Story: Zoetrope, Zyzzyva, and 42opus.com, before joining the staff at Narrative Magazine.

Ten years ago, Narrative Magazine was established as a non-for-profit organization, aiming to bring literature to the digital world. The magazine publishes prose and poetry of emerging writers alongside Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, James Salter, T.C. Boyle. The issues appear online free of charge, on Kindle and Apple devices, and once a year in print. As a senior associate editor, Olga looks for excellent writing by emerging and established writers, as well as being involved in many other aspects of running a magazine, from editing book reviews to participating in the social media effort.

Olga's own writing has appeared in both Russian and English languages. Her two books of fiction were published in St. Petersburg, where her parents still reside. Where Does the Sea Flow, a short film based on one of Olga's stories, recently won first prize at the Forli International Short Film Festival and was a finalist in the Manhattan Short Film Festival. Olga's English-language writing has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Santa Monica Review, J Journal, Mad Hatters' Review, Prick of the Spindle, HTMLGiant, and other print and online publications.