YELENA MOSKOVICH was born in 1984 in Ukraine (former USSR) and emigrated to the US with her family in 1991. After graduating with a degree in playwriting from Emerson College, Boston, she moved to Paris to study at the Lecoq School of Physical Theatre, and later for a Masters degree in Art, Philosophy and Aesthetics from Universite Paris 8. Her plays have been produced in the US, Vancouver, Paris, and Stockholm. She lives in Paris. In 2016 she published her first novel, The Natashas (Serpent’s Tail).

Yelena won the 2016/17 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize for her story ‘Marlene or Number 16’, which is available to read here.