Moskovitch, Yelena: - Yelena Moskovich is a Ukrainian-born American and French author of four novels. She emigrated from the Soviet Union with her family as Jewish refugees in 1991, then solo to Paris in 2007, and recently back to America. Her writing has been long-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize, awarded the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize and named in the Guardian, Telegraph, and Irish Times Books of the Year. She's written for the Paris Review, Vogue, Times Literary Supplement, and worked for the European Jewish Congress and Yahad-In Unum, as well as taught graduate creative writing at University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture.