Lembersky, Pavel: - Pavel Lembersky was born in Odesa, Ukraine, and emigrated to the United States in 1977. After receiving his BA in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley, Pavel did graduate work in film at San Francisco State University. He worked in New York City on film projects of Jonathan Demme and Spalding Gray and the Oscar-winning The Appointments of Dennis Jennings, among others. Pavel authored seven collections of short fiction and three novels. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.