Helen TrepelkovThe daughter of a Russian diplomat, Helen Trepelkov graduated summa cum laude with a master's degree in International Economic Relations from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations, dubbed the Harvard of Russia by Henry Kissinger. Shotly after, she followed her husband to New York City and, quite unexpectedly, became a stay-at-home mother to our two daughters. Forty years later, now a grandmother, Helen still lives in New York City with her husband and help her children raise their kids. Her first book, Postgraduate Studies in Motherhood, was published by Black Rose Writing in August 2018 and won the 2018 Maxy Award runner-up in the nonfiction category. Read More Read Less