You're invited to our Ulysses Reading Series event on Thursday, October 23 at 7:00 PM ET at 115 Franklin Street (Middlebury College)! Featuring Grady Chambers, Molly Johnsen, Daisy Kulina, & Tim Weed.

Emily Mitchell began her role as a fiction editor for NER in 2018. She has published three books of fiction: The Last Summer of the World (W. W. Norton), which was a finalist for the 2008 NYPL Young Lions Award; a collection of short stories, Viral (W. W. Norton, 2015); and The Church of Divine Electricity, winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award, to be published by University of Wisconsin press in 2025.

Her short fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The SunPloughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Southern Review, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in Guernica and the New York Times. She’s the recipient of fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, Ucross, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Can Serrat. She teaches creative writing at the University of Maryland.