Anya Groner and Elizabeth Kaiser

Anya Groner and Elizabeth Kaiser have been friends since the day Anya picked Elizabeth up off the side of the highway in Oxford, Mississippi. Since then, they’ve rolled pumpkins down a hill in Fayetteville, Arkansas and found a severed alligator head along the Bayou Saint John in New Orleans, Louisiana. They are co-writing a collection of essays about their adventures. The first chapter of Anya’s novel recently appeared in Ninth Letter. Her writing has also been in journals including The Carolina Quarterly, Juked, and Pank. Elizabeth is contemplating a novel about elderly criminals. Her work has appeared in The Oxford American and The Idaho Review.