Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry was born and raised in Moscow, Russia, by a mother who believed that unless you read every day, you did not deserve dinner. Kristina graduated from Moscow State Linguistic University and worked as a school teacher and an interpreter before moving to the United States in 1994. She received an M.A. in English from Radford University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins University.
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