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 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2025), winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award.

Her short fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The Sun, Ploughshares, 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.