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Elizabeth Kadetsky

Elizabeth Kadetsky is author of the memoir First There Is a Mountain, the short story collection The Poison that Purifies You, and the novella On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World. A professor of creative writing at Penn State and nonfiction editor at the New England Review, she is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Program, MacDowell Colony, and Vermont Studio Center.


The Memoir in Essays:
A Reading List

Elizabeth Kadetsky on the Multiple Ways We Can Look at the Self
April 29, 2020  By Elizabeth Kadetsky
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