Elizabeth Kadetsky began working as a nonfiction editor for NER in 2017. A 2025 NEH Public Scholars fellow, she teaches creative writing at Penn State University in State College. She is the author of The Memory Eaters, winner of the Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction; a novella, On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World; a story collection, The Poison that Purifies You; and a memoir, First There Is a Mountain.

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. A three-time Fulbright scholar to India, she recently published two cover stories in American Scholar magazine. Her personal essays have appeared in the New York Times, Antioch Review, and Best Spiritual Writing notable citations, and her fiction has been included in The Pushcart Prize XXIX, Best New American Voices, and the Best American Short Stories notable citations.