Evgenia Citkowitz was born in New York and was educated in London and the United States. Her short stories have been published in various British magazines. Her screenplay The House in Paris, based on Elizabeth Bowen’s novel, is currently in development. Her first collection, Ether: Seven Stories and a Novella, was published this week by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

How does one become a mother when you’re the child of a difficult one? Evgenia Citkowitz shares the story of her frustration and love for her brilliant, mercurial mother, Lady Caroline Blackwood.