Elliott Holt's fiction has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Guernica, Kenyon Review Online, and The Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses. She has an MFA from Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn. Laura van den Berg’s first story collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, was published by Dzanc Books in 2009.
On Monday, November 15, National Book Award week kicked off with the annual “5 Under 35” celebration, at which five young fiction writers were feted at the PowerHouse Arena in…