Elizabeth Kadetsky is the author of a memoir, First There Is a Mountain, (Little Brown, 2004), a story collection, The Poison that Purifies You, (C&R Press, 2014) and a novella, On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World, (Nouvella Books, 2015). Her fiction has been included in Glimmer Train, Antioch Review, the Pushcart Prizes, Best New American Voices, and the Best American Short Stories notable citations, and her personal essays have appeared in the New York Times, Antioch Review, and elsewhere. She is assistant professor of creative writing at Penn State, and attended the Community of Writers in 1997 and 2004. elizabethkadetsky.com