Kadetsky, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Kadetsky is the author of the short story collection THE POISON THAT PURIFIES YOU (C&R Press, 2014), the memoir First There Is a Mountain (Little Brown), and the novella On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World (Nouvella Books). Her short stories have been chosen for a Pushcart Prize, Best New American Voices, and two Best American Short Stories notable citations, and her personal essays have appeared in The New York Times, Guernica, Santa Monica Review, Antioch Review, Post Road, Agni, and elsewhere. She has traveled to Guatemala as a journalist covering the undergroun...