Cove Park’s International Literature Residency supports an international writer at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, career stages and nationalities. Previous International Writers include Margaret Atwood, Anne Carson, Fred D’Aguiar and Christos Tsiolkas. In 2016 our International Writer is at an earlier but important stage in her writing career: Yelena Moskovich’s first novel The Natashas has just been published by Serpent’s Tail and she is working on her second and developing literary contacts in Scotland.

Yelena Moskovich is a Ukrainian-born American author living in Paris. Her debut novel is The Natashas (Serpent’s Tail 2016), also to be released in French in 2017 (éditions Viviane Hamy).  Born in 1984 in the former Soviet Ukraine, she emigrated with her family to the US in 1991. After graduating with a degree in playwriting from Emerson College, Boston, she moved to Paris in 2007 to study at the Lecoq School of Physical Theatre, and later for a Masters degree in Art, Philosophy and Aesthetics from Université Paris 8. Her plays have been produced in the US, Vancouver, Paris, and Stockholm. She is currently working on her second novel, The Longer the Tongue.