Elizabeth Nicole Kadetsky

Professional Bio

Elizabeth Kadetsky is the author of The Memory Eaters, winner of the Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction, a lyric memoir from U Mass Press (April 2020). She is also the author of a novella, On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World (Nouvella, 2015); a story collection, The Poison that Purifies You (C&R Press, 2014); and a memoir, First There Is a Mountain (Little Brown, 2004). Her short stories have been chosen for a Pushcart Prize, Best New American Voices, and two Best American Short Stories notable citations, and her personal essays have appeared in the New York Times, Santa Monica Review, Antioch Review and elsewhere. She has been a fellow at MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the St. James Centre for Creativity in Malta, and many other creative writing residencies. A two-time Fulbright scholar to India and a 30-year practitioner of Iyengar and Ashtanga yoga, she published her first book after researching and studying with the yogi BKS Iyengar in Pune, India.

website: elizabethkadetsky.com