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Elisheva Emerson

Elisheva's debut novel from the verb: to know placed second in the 2020 First Pages Prize judged by Sebastian Faulks, it was a finalist in the 2020 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, and a short portion was excerpted in the literary journal Drash.
Her stories and poems have been published in journals including The Beloit Fiction Journal, Midwestern Gothic, Crucible, and Anemone Sidecar. Her original play The Greys was produced at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles in 2010 and her BA in journalism from USC in 2001.
Elisheva lives with her husband and children in Tucson, Arizona.
Hear her talk about rabbis, pie, sex, books, and suffering on the Making Meaning podcast.
Contact
Elisheva is represented by
Carolyn Forde and Amanda Orozco
at the Transatlantic Agency.
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