Evgenia Citkowitz

Evgenia Citkowitz is an American playwright, author and journalist. Citkowitz's first book Ether was published in 2010, a collection of seven short stories and a novella. Ether was picked as New York Times Editors' Choice and made it to The New Yorker's Book Club. Citkowitz's debut novel The Shades, a psychological thriller, was published on 19 June 2018. The Shades covers the impact of a daughter's death on a family as they try to move on with their grief. Citkowitz stated that the purpose of the novel was to look into the "fragility of human existence" and the original story grew from the idea of "someone returning to their childhood home" that she then expanded upon. One of her primary focuses was to create characters that felt "authentic as people" in order to form empathy in the reader and also why she researched the intricacies of the fields and hobbies each of the characters practice in the novel, such as pottery. Citkowitz has written for various publications across the United Kingdom and the United States, including The Sunday Times, The London Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times and Harper's Bazaar.