Elizabeth KadetskyElizabeth Kadetsky is the author of the short story collection THE POISON THAT PURIFIES YOU (C&R Press, 2014), the memoir First There Is a Mountain (Little Brown), and the novella On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World> (Nouvella Books). 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, Guernica, Santa Monica Review, Antioch Review, Post Road, Agni, and elsewhere. She has traveled to Guatemala as a journalist covering the underground adoption trade for the Village Voice, to Southern Mexico covering the war in Chiapas for The Nation, to Malta as a creative writing fellow at the St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, to France as a fellow in the arts at Camargo Foundation, and to India as Fulbright fellow. She is an assistant professor of fiction and nonfiction at Penn State University. Read More Read Less