E. V. Svetova is a life-long New Yorker. She lives at the edge of the last natural forest on the island of Manhattan with her husband, a digital animator, sharing their old apartment with an ever-expanding library and a spoiled English bulldog. She studied psychology as an undergrad and received a Master’s in humanities from NYU. Her creative nonfiction was published in several literary magazines; her young adult fantasy Print In The Snow won an IPPY gold medal; the manuscript of Over The Hills Of Green was a finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.