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Elizabeth Kadetsky [1]

Listed as: 
Creative Nonfiction Writer, Fiction Writer
Public address: 
New York, NY
New York US
Email: 
ekadetsky@yahoo.com
Bio: 

A writer of fiction and nonfiction, I published my first book with Little Brown and Co., and it is now forthcoming in rEprint from Dzanc Books. My short stories and personal essays have appeared widely, in the New York Times, the Pushcart Prizes, Best New American Voices and many anthologies and journals. I teach fiction and creative nonfiction writing at Penn State.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
French
Spanish
Raised in: 
New York City, NY
New York
Website: 
https://www.elizabethkadetsky.com [2]
Prizes won: 

Fulbright, Pushcart. two-time fellowship winner to MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Resident Artists program and Ucross Foundation. I have also won scholarships to the Breadloaf, Sewanee, Wesleyan and Squaw Valley writers conferences as well as to the Albee Foundation, VCCA, St, James Cavalier Centre in Valletta, Malta, Fundacion Valparaiso, Camargo Foundation, Fondacion La Napoule, and elsewhere.

What I'm reading now: 
Tenth of December by George Saunders
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
Moll Flanders by Daniel DeFoe
Prefers to work with: 
Any
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