Emily Mitchell

Emily Mitchell is the author of a novel, The Last Summer of the World (W. W. Norton, 2007), and two collections of short stories, Viral (W. W. Norton, 2015) and The Church of Divine Electricity (University of Wisconsin Press, 2025). Her short fiction has appeared in Harpers’, Ploughshares, The Sun, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, New Statesman (UK) and Guernica. She’s the recipient of fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, the Ucross Foundation and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She serves as fiction editor of New England Review and teaches at University of Maryland.