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About Elizabeth Kadetsky

August 25, 2013 by ekadetsky

  Cover photo by Nina Subin Elizabeth Kadetsky, winner of the 2019 Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction, is the author of The Memory Eaters, a lyric memoir in essays forthcoming from U. Mass Press in April 2020. Her three previous books include two works of fiction—a novella (On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World, Nouvella, 2015) and a story collection (The Poison that Purifies You, C&R Press, 2014)—and a researched memoir set in India (First […]

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The Memory Eaters, winner of the Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction, U. Mass Press, March 31, 2020

August 25, 2013 by ekadetsky

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The Poison that Purifies You — C&R Press (2014)

August 24, 2013 by ekadetsky

This thought-provoking collection explores the variety of ways that we seek personal and spiritual connections–and the ways that we can poison ourselves and others in our quests. Elizabeth Kadetsky is a writer of keen insight and graceful prose. —Dan Chaon, Stay Awake In The Poison that Purifies You, Elizabeth Kadetsky deftly constructs fully realized places—some foreign, some familiar—and fully realized characters—some of them more like us than we’d like to admit. She tugs gently on these places and people until she […]

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On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World — Nouvella (2015)

August 24, 2013 by ekadetsky

In the wake of a chaotic decade in New York, Netti and her eleven-year-old son, Ian, find themselves on the shores of Malta, a picturesque and antiquated Mediterranean island where the last world war still thrums in the nerves of its residents. When they witness an accident on the streets of Valletta, Netti becomes enmeshed in a mystery of Old World family alliances and an island little touched by time and outsiders. Faced with her own transgressions in the shape […]

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First There Is a Mountain—Dzanc Books rEprint Series (2019); Little Brown & Co (2004)

August 24, 2013 by ekadetsky

As a young journalist, Elizabeth Kadetsky found herself running for hours every day, eating little, and suffering from a troubling and persistent pain in her chest. On a friend’s advice, she applied to the yoga institute in India where the legendary B. K. S. Iyengar took in Western students for instruction. First There Is a Mountain is a tale of the longing that brings an American woman to the feet of the aging patriarch Iyengar, one of the first to share […]

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Lyric Essay

August 24, 2013 by ekadetsky

Check here for occasional ruminations and publications. And see below for sample essays lyric, narrative, personal: Morgue Has Moved to Stuyvesant High School — Santa Monica Review The Queens Next Door — Defunct A New Yorker in Melbourne: On Creative Nonfiction, a Conference, a Hired Bicycle — Brevity The EST in Me — Guernica

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