First Fiction

Stephen Elliott bio ↓  ·  September 2nd, 2009  ·  filed under books

“It took me ten years to write the stories in my first book, and why shouldn’t it have? After all, it took me ten years to become a good lawyer, which is what I was before I began writing, at forty, and although I wished that my apprenticeship as a writer would go faster and more easily than my last gig had, I suspected that it probably wouldn’t and so dug in for the long haul.”

Kathryn Ma on winning the Iowa Short Fiction Award.

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Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books, including the memoir The Adderall Diaries, the novel Happy Baby, and the erotica collection My Girlfriend Comes To The City and Beats Me Up. He is the editor of The Rumpus. Sometimes he twitters. More from this author →

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