Evgenia Citkowitz

Evgenia Citkowitz (born Eugenia Citkowitz; 1964) is an American playwright, author and journalist. Early life and family Eugenia Citkowitz was born in 1964 in the state of New York, the youngest of two daughters to Israel Citkowitz, an American pianist, composer and piano teacher, and Lady Caroline Blackwood, an English writer. Her parents divorced in 1972, although her father continued to live nearby and helped raise her and her sisters until his death. Citkowitz has four half-siblings. Her stepfather was Robert Lowell, an American poet. Citkowitz attended a boarding school in Devon, South West England. During her teenage years, she attended St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith. Citkowitz graduated with a degree in English literature from Oxford University. She was educated, briefly, in the United States. Citkowitz grew up in London, England. About her childhood, she said [she had a] "chaotic home life, lonely at times, although I met many interesting people."